PART 13
GENERAL
Notices
64.—(1) All notices required or authorised by or under these Regulations to be given must be in writing, unless it is otherwise provided, or the court allows the notice to be given in some other way.
(2) Where in proceedings under these Regulations a notice is required to be sent or given by any person, the sending or giving of it may be proved by means of a certificate by that person that he posted the notice, or instructed another person (naming him) to do so.
(3) A certificate under this paragraph may be endorsed on a copy or specimen of the notice to which it relates.
“Give notice” etc
65.—(1) A reference in these Regulations to giving notice, or to delivering, sending or serving any document, means that the notice or document may be sent by post.
(2) Subject to paragraph 70, any form of post may be used.
(3) Personal service of a document is permissible in all cases.
(4) Notice of the venue fixed for an application may be given by service of the sealed copy of the application under paragraph 33(3).
Notice, etc. to solicitors
66. Where in proceedings under these Regulations a notice or other document is required or authorised to be given to a person, it may, if he has indicated that his solicitor is authorised to accept service on his behalf, be given instead to the solicitor.
Notice to joint Northern Ireland insolvency officeholders
67. Where two or more persons are acting jointly as the Northern Ireland insolvency officeholder in proceedings under Northern Ireland insolvency law, delivery of a document to one of them is to be treated as delivery to them all.
Forms for use in proceedings under these Regulations
68.—(1) The forms contained in Schedule 4 shall be used in, and in connection with, proceedings under these Regulations.
(2) The forms shall be used with such variations, if any, as the circumstances may require.
Time
69. The provisions of Order 3 of the Supreme Court Rules, except rules 3 and 6, apply as regards computation, extension and abridgement of time in respect of anything required or authorised to be done in respect of these Regulations.
Service by post
70.—(1) For a document to be properly served by post, it must be contained in an envelope addressed to the person on whom service is to be effected, and pre-paid for first class post.
(2) A document to be served by post may be sent to the last known address of the person to be served.
(3) Where first class post is used, the document is treated as served on the second business day after the date of posting, unless the contrary is shown.
(4) The date of posting is presumed, unless the contrary is shown, to be the date shown in the post-mark on the envelope in which the document is contained.
General provisions as to service and notice
71.—(1) Subject to paragraphs 22, 70 and 72 and sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), Order 65 of the Supreme Court Rules applies as regards any matter relating to the service of documents and the giving of notice in proceedings under these Regulations.
(2) In Order 65, rule 7, the expression “other originating process” does not include any application in insolvency proceedings.
(3) Order 65, rule 9 does not apply.
Service outside the jurisdiction
72.—(1) Order 11 of the Supreme Court Rules does not apply in proceedings under these Regulations.
(2) Where for the purposes of proceedings under these Regulations any process or order of the court, or other document, is required to be served on a person who is not in Northern Ireland, the court may order service to be effected within such time, on such person, at such place and in such manner as it thinks fit, and may also require such proof of service as it thinks fit.
(3) An application under this paragraph shall be supported by an affidavit stating—
(a)the grounds on which the application is made; and;
(b)in what place or country the person to be served is, or probably may be found.
False claim of status as creditor
73.—(1) Rule 12.20 (false claim of status as creditor, etc) shall apply with any necessary modifications in any case where a person falsely claims the status of a creditor of a debtor, with the intention of obtaining a sight of documents whether on the court’s file or in the hands of the foreign representative or other person, which he has not under these Regulations any right to inspect.
(2) Rule 12.22 and Schedule 3 to the Rules shall apply to an offence under Rule 12.20 as applied by sub-paragraph (1) as they apply to an offence under Rule 12.20.
The Gazette
74.—(1) A copy of the Gazette containing any notice required by these Regulations to be gazetted is evidence of any fact stated in the notice.
(2) In the case of an order of the court notice of which is required by these Regulations to be gazetted, a copy of the Gazette containing the notice may in any proceedings be produced as conclusive evidence that the order was made on the date specified in the notice.