Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsAmendment of section 55 of Chapter 101
| 2. Section 55 of the Civil Procedure Code (hereinafter referred to as the 'principal enactment") is hereby amended in subsection (1) thereof, by the substitution, for all the words from " to the Fiscal of the court or " to " actual service thereof has been entrusted. " of the following: "to the Fiscal of the court or to a Fiscal of a court of like jurisdiction within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the defendant resides or to the Grama Niladhari within whose division the defendant resides, who shall cause the same to be duly served on the defendant, or on each defendant, if more than one, and shall as hereinafter provided, return the same and the execution thereof to the court, duly verified, in the case of a summons delivered to a Fiscal, by the officer to whom the actual service thereof has been entrusted, or in the case of a summons delivered to a Grama Niladhari, by such Grama Niladhari. ". |