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District Court Rules 1997. Order 10 r 5 in regard to the procedure of serving summonses, provides:
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"...shall be effected upon a person in the State by delivering to that person a copy thereof or by leaving a copy thereof or by leaving the copy for that person at his or her last or most usual place of abode, or at his or her office, shop, factory, home or place of business with that person's husband or wife, as the case may be or with a child or other relative (apparently residing with that person) of that person or of his wife or her husband as the case may be, or with any agent, clerk, servant or employee of that person, or with the person in charge of the house or premises wherein that person usually resides, provided that the person (other than the person upon whom service is to be efected) with whom the opy is left is not under the age of sixteen years and is not the person instituting proceedings"