Order V Rule 28

Service on soldiers, sailors or airmen

Issue and service of summons, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Where the defendant is a soldier, 1 [sailor] 2 [or airmanic], the Court shall send the summons for service to his commanding officer together with a copy to be retained by the defendant.

1. Ins. by s. 2 and Sch., ibid.

2. Ins. by Act 10 of 1927, s. 2 and the First Sch. I.

How this Rule is cited

It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order V Rule 28 CPC and Order 5 Rule 28 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.

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