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Central Provident Fund Act 1953 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Offences, Penalties and Proceedings

62A. Service of notice and summons

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2023.

(1)

Every notice to attend court issued under section 62, and every summons issued by a court, against any person in connection with any offence under this Act may be served on the person —

(a)

by delivering it to the person or to some adult member of the person’s family at his or her last known place of residence;

(b)

by leaving it at or sending it by registered post to the person’s usual or last known place of residence or business in an envelope addressed to the person;

(c)

where the person is a body of persons or a company —

(i)

by delivering it to the secretary or other like officer of the body of persons or company at its registered office or principal place of business; or

(ii)

by sending it by registered post addressed to the body of persons or company at its registered office or principal place of business;

(d)

by transmitting it to an electronic mail address specified in accordance with subsection (1A); or

(e)

by serving it through the electronic service platform mentioned in section 74 with the person’s consent, if so provided by regulations made for the purposes of section 74(4)(b).

(1A)

A notice to attend court or summons may be served in the manner specified in subsection (1)(d) only if a person mentioned in section 116(5) of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010 who may consent to the mode of service of a summons —

(a)

gives prior written consent for the notice to attend court or summons (as the case may be) to be served in that manner; and

(b)

specifies, in that written consent, the electronic mail address to which the notice to attend court or summons (as the case may be) is to be transmitted.

(2)

Any notice to attend court, or summons, sent by registered post to any person in accordance with subsection (1) is deemed to be duly served on the person to whom the letter is addressed at the time when the letter would, in the ordinary course of post, be delivered and, in proving service of the notice or summons (as the case may be), it is sufficient to prove that the envelope containing the notice or summons (as the case may be) was properly addressed, stamped and posted by registered post.