(2) No such leave shall be granted unless it is made sufficiently to appear to the Court or a Judge in Chambers that the cause is a proper one for service out of jurisdiction under these Rules. Order to fix time for appearance 15. Any order giving leave to effect service or give notice shall limit a time after such service or notice within which the defendant is to enter an appearance, such time to depend on the place or country where or within which the writ is to be served or the notice given, and on whether the air mail is available to the defendant. Service of notice 16. Where leave is given under the foregoing provisions to serve notice of the writ of summons out of jurisdiction, the motive shall be served in the manner in which writs of summons are served. Service of originating summons, etc 17. (1) Service out of the jurisdiction may be allowed by the Court or a judge in Chambers of the following processes or of notices thereof, that is to say­ (a) An originating summons, where the proceedings begun by an originating summons might have been begun by a writ of summons under these Rules; (b) Any originating summons, petition, notice of motion or other originating proceedings(i) In relation to an infant or lunatic or person of unsound mind, or (ii) Under any law or enactment under which proceedings can be commenced otherwise than by writ of summons, or (iii) Under any rule of Court where under proceedings can be commenced otherwise than by writ of summons; (c) without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (b) of this sub-rule, any summons, order or notice in any interpleader proceedings or for the appointment of an Arbitrator or umpire or to remit, set aside, or enforce an award in an arbitration held or to be held within the jurisdiction; (d) Any summons, order or notice in any proceeding duly instituted whether by writ of summons or other such originating process as aforesaid. (2) The provisions of rule 14, 15 and 16 of this order shall apply mutatis mutandis to service under this rule. Service abroad by letter of request 18. (1) Where leave is given to serve a writ of summons or a notice of writ of summons in any foreign country other than a country with which a convention in that behalf has been made, the following procedure may be adopted- Civil Form 7 (a) the document to be served shall be sealed with the seal of the Court for use out of the jurisdiction, and shall be transmitted to the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice by the Chief Registrar on the direction of the Chief Judge, together with a copy thereof translated into the language of the country in which service is to be effected and with a request for transmission to the Minister responsible for foreign affairs for the further transmission of the same to the government

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