Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Service of summons on corporate bodies and societies.

63. Service of a summons on a corporation may be effected by serving it on the secretary, local manager or other principal officer of the corporation, or by letter sent by registered post, addressed to the chief officer of the corporation in India, in which case the service shall be deemed to have been effected when the letter would arrive in ordinary course of post.

Explanation : In this section, "corporation" means an incorporated company or other body corporate and includes a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (21 of 1860).

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LAW COMMISSION REPORTS

Registered societies - This section corresponds to the old section 69(3). The Explanation has been added to bring the registered societies also within the purview of the section. As observed by the Law Commission :

". . . societies registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, although not formally incorporated, possess some of the attributes of a corporation and it is desirable that such societies should be treated on par with a corporation in criminal proceedings."