Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsProcedure when personal service cannot be effected
| 47. If the service prescribed in sections 45 and 46 cannot by the exercise of due diligence be effected the serving officer shall affix one of the duplicates and the translation where necessary of the summons to some conspicuous part of the house or homestead in which the person summoned ordinarily resides, and in such case the summons, if the court either before or after such affixing so directs, shall be deemed to have been duly served. |