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CIVIL BILL COURT, IRELAND.

notice to the tenant of the holding, or within such further time as the Judge shall sanction or direct.

6. Service of the notice mentioned in the 7th section of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887, by sending a copy thereof in a registered letter addressed to the tenant, and by posting the summary of such notice as in the preceding Rules mentioned, shall be good service of such notice on all the persons required to be served there with under the provisions of said section in cases where any person served with the process in ejectment shall be in possession of the land at the time of the service of the notice.

7. If at the time of the service of the notice mentioned in the 7th section of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887,[1] no person who has been served with the process of ejectment for non-payment of rent shall be in possession of the land mentioned in such ejectment, service of such notice may be effected by posting a copy thereof in a manner similar to that herein-before in Rule No. 5 provided for posting the summary therein mentioned.

8. The time within which a copy of the notice mentioned in the said 7th section of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887,[1] must be filed in Court shall be twenty-one days after the service thereof. Such copy shall be so filed by delivering same to the Clerk of the Peace, who shall thereupon duly file same in his office.

9. The mode of proving service of all notices under the Land Law (Ireland) Act of 1887,[1] and of the date or dates of such service, shall be by affidavit or affidavits to be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Peace.

10. If at any time it shall appear to the Judge or Clerk of the Peace that the affidavit or affidavits already filed under the preceding rule is or are defective, the Judge or Clerk of the Peace may permit the filing of a supplementary affidavit sup- plying the defects of the affidavit or affidavits so filed; such permission in the case of a Clerk of the Peace to be testified by endorsement on the supplementary affidavit filed.

11. Expressions in the foregoing rules of this order referring to the service of a notice upon persons in possession of land shall include the posting of a notice where no person is in possession.

12. The decree for possession under which possession of a holding may be recovered after the expiration of the period of redemption has expired pursuant to the provisions of section 7 of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887,[1] shall be in the form of an ordinary decree for possession in an ejectment for non-payment of rent, with the following memorandum, or to the like effect thereon, that is to say:-

"This decree is not to be executed until after the expiration of a period of six months after the service of the notice mentioned in section 7, subscation 1, of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887, as ascertained by the certificate of the Clerk of the Peace hereon."


  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 30 & 51 Vict. c. 33.