PART IV Debt and Ejectment Proceedings
A. RULES APPLICABLE TO BOTH DEBT AND EJECTMENT PROCEEDINGS

59 Persons entitled to serve processes
1 Subject to paragraph (2) and to Rules 60 and 130(2) no person other than a summons server for the petty sessions district in which proceedings are brought or in which the defendant resides shall have authority to serve a process.
2 Where in any such district a summons server is absent or unable to carry out his duties through illness or other cause, or when the office of summons server is vacant, a process may be served by some other person, if permission for such other person to serve the process has been given by a resident magistrate or by the clerk of petty sessions and has been endorsed or signed by him on the original process.
3 Nothing in this Rule shall affect the provisions of section 60 of the Miscellaneous Transferred Excise Duties Act (Northern Ireland) 1972.
1972 c. 11 (N.I.)