9. Service of decree nisi by a process officer

The Court may, on application being made in that behalf immediately after the decree nisi is entered under section 5, and at its discretion, order that in addition to serving the decree nisi by registered post, the decree nisi may also be served by tendering or delivering the same on the defendant personally through a process officer.

In the case where such decree nisi is ordered to be served through a process officer under subsection (1), the

The decree nisi may be served in any part of Sri Lanka.

Where a decree nisi is required to be served outside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the Court issuing the same, the Court may, at its discretion or on application made by the plaintiff, for reasons to be recorded and upon such terms as to costs, authorize the process officer of that Court to serve the decree nisi outside the local limits of the jurisdiction of that Court and to function as a special process server.

It shall be the duty of the process officer to endeavour to obtain the signature or the thumb impression or both of the defendant or any other person on his behalf, on the original precept in acknowledgment of the service of the decree nisi. The process officer shall return the precept to the

If the service cannot be effected as referred to in subsection (1) by the exercise of due diligence, the process officer is authorized to affix the decree nisi in some conspicuous part of the premises without any further direction of the Court and report such service to the Court.