Service of summons on corporate bodies and societies
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Summary
A corporation can be served by delivering the summons to its secretary, local manager or other principal officer. Alternatively, sending the summons by registered post to the corporation's chief officer in India counts as service when the letter would normally arrive. 'Corporation' covers incorporated companies and registered societies.
Example
Priya runs a registered society that is named in a complaint. The magistrate sends a summons by registered post to the society's chief officer in India. The summons is treated as served when the letter would normally arrive, even if no one physically hands it over.
Bare Act
Enacted textService of a summons on a corporation may be effected by serving it on the secretary, local manager or other principal officer of the corporation, or by letter sent by registered post, addressed to the chief officer of the corporation in India, in which case the service shall be deemed, to have been effected when the letter would arrive in ordinary course of post.
Explanation
– In this section “corporation” means an incorporated company or other body corporate and includes a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (21 of 1860).
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