Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsPersonal service
| 127. The court shall, if it is reported that service could not be effected by registered post or is advised that service by registered post is inexpedient, and may, where summons having been so served the person summoned fails to appear, direct that such summons be served personally on the person summoned by delivering or tendering to him the said summons through a process officer of court, police officer, grama sevaka or such other officer as may be authorized by court. In the case of a corporation or unincorporated body of persons, summons may be served personally by delivering or tendering it to the secretary or like officer or a director or the person in charge of the principal place of business of such corporation, or to the president, the secretary or like officer of such unincorporated body. |