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Mode of service of jurors summonses.
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42.—(1) Every jurors summons not authorised by virtue of this Act to be served by post shall be served by a member of the Gárda Síochána either by delivering the same to the person to whom it is addressed or by leaving it for him at the address mentioned in it with a person of the age of sixteen years or upwards.
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(2) Every member of the Gárda Síochána engaged in serving jurors summonses shall be provided with a book (in this Act referred to as the service book) in the prescribed form and it shall be his duty, immediately after the service of or his failure to serve any jurors summons, to enter in the service book the date, place, and mode of such service or the date of and reasons for such failure to serve.
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(3) Whenever it appears to a member of the Gárda Síochána engaged in serving jurors summonses that the person to whom any such summons is addressed is dead or has permanently ceased to reside at the address mentioned in such summons or never resided at that address he shall enter in his service book the facts so appearing to him and the source from which he derived such facts and, in lieu of serving such summons, shall return the same to the summoning officer endorsed with the words “not served,” followed by the reason for such non-service.
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