served, or if it is delivered to an address at which at least one successful service hadpreviously been performed, and the person to whom the document is being served hasnot communicated a change of address.Article 161(1) Documents which pursuant to this Code do not have to be served personally shallalso be served personally, but such documents, where the recipient is not found at hisabode or place of work, may be served to an adult member of the household, who isrequired to receive the document. Where no adult members are found at the abode, thedocument shall be served to the building’s janitor or a neighbour, if they agree to receiveit. Where the service is conducted at the workplace of the person to whom the documentis to be served, and the person is not present, the service may be effected to the personresponsible for receiving mail, who has an obligation to receive the document, or aperson employed at the same location, if that person agrees to receive the document.(2) Where it is established that the person to whom the document is to be served isabsent and that due to that fact the persons referred to in paragraph 1 of this Articlecannot deliver the document to him in due time, the document shall be returned with anindication of the location of the absent person.Article 162(1) Summons for the first interrogation in the preliminary proceedings and summons forthe trial shall be served to accused persons personally.(2) The indictment, motion to indict or private prosecution, the judgement and otherdecisions from whose time of delivery the time limit for appeals begins to run, as well asappeals by the adverse party delivered for a response, shall be delivered personally toaccused persons who have no defence counsel. Where an accused person requeststhat the summons referred to in paragraph 1 and documents referred to in thisparagraph are served to a person he designates, service shall be effected to that personand shall be deemed performed to the accused person.(3) Where an accused person who has no defence counsel is to be served a judgementin which an unconditional custodial penalty has been pronounced, and service to theaddress he had hitherto used cannot be performed, the court shall appoint a defencecounsel for the accused person ex officio who shall perform the duty until the newaddress of the accused person is located. The appointed defence counsel shall be givena time limit for examining the files, after which the judgement shall be served to theappointed defence counsel and the proceedings resumed. Where another decision fromwhose moment of service an appeal time limit begins to run, or an appeal by the adverseparty being served for a response, is concerned, and the process server could not locatethe accused person’s new address, the decision or the appeal shall be posted on thenotice board of the court and deemed duly served at the expiry of a period of eight daysfrom the date of the posting.(4) Where the accused person has a defence counsel, the indictment, motion to indict,private prosecution and all decisions from the moment of whose service begins to runthe time limit for filing an appeal or an objection, as well as appeals of the adverse party
eing served for a response, shall be served to the defence counsel and the accusedperson pursuant to the provisions of Article 161 of this Code. In that case, the time limitbegins to run from the date of serving the document to the accused person or thedefence counsel. If a decision or appeal cannot be served to the accused personbecause he had not communicated a change of address to the court, the document shallbe posted on the notice board of the court and deemed duly served at the expiry of aperiod of eight days from the date of the posting.(5) Where a document is to be served to the accused person’s defence counsel, and theaccused person has more than one defence counsel, it is sufficient that it be served toone of them.Article 163(1) A summons for initiating private prosecution or indictment, as well as summons forthe trial hearing, shall be served to private prosecutors and subsidiary prosecutors, or totheir legal representatives, personally (Article 160), and to their proxies, in accordancewith Article 161 of this Code. Decisions from the date of whose service begins to run thetime limit for appeals and appeals by the adverse party being served for a response shallalso be served in this manner.(2) Where the persons referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article or aggrieved partiescannot be served at their hitherto addresses, the court shall post the summons or appealon the notice board of the court and they shall be deemed duly served at the expiry of aperiod of eight days from the date of the posting.(3) Where an aggrieved party, a subsidiary prosecutor or a private prosecutor has alegal representative or proxy, the service shall be effected to that person, and if there aremore representatives or proxies, to only one of them.(1) Documents are served in sealed covers.Article 164(2) Pro of service (service receipt) shall be signed by the recipient and the processserver. The recipient shall designate on the service receipt the date of the reception.(3) Where a recipient is illiterate or not able to sign his name, it shall be signed by theprocess server, who shall also specify the date of reception and the reason why hesigned in lieu of the recipient.(4) Where a recipient refuses to sign a service receipt, the process server shall so noteon the service receipt and note the date of service, whereby the service is deemedperformed.Article 165Where a recipient or adult member of the recipient’s household refuses to receive adocument, the process server shall note on the service receipt the date, time and reason
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