Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1997

Summonses.

2.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any enactment or the District Court Rules—

(a) a summons in connection with proceedings under section 62 of the Housing Act, 1966, or this Act may be served by ordinary prepaid post or in any one of the other ways referred to in section 3(1) of the Housing Act, 1966;

(b) a summons in connection with proceedings in the District Court under section 62 of the Housing Act, 1966, or this Act may, in lieu of being signed and issued by a judge of the District Court, be signed and issued under the general superintendence of an appropriate District Court clerk as a matter of administrative procedure.

(2) In this section “appropriate District Court clerk”, in relation to a summons, means a District Court clerk assigned to any District Court area in the District Court district in which a justice of the District Court has jurisdiction in relation to the proceedings to which the summons relates.