Section 325: Service of documents on foreign company in legal proceedings
consolidated text (as at 2018, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
325. Service of documents on foreign company in legal proceedings
(1) A document in any legal proceedings may be served on a foreign
company in Mauritius as follows—
(a) by delivery to a person named in the register as a director of the
foreign company and who is resident in Mauritius;
(b) by delivery to a person named in the register as being authorised
to accept service in Mauritius of documents on behalf of the foreign company;
(c) by delivery to an employee of the foreign company at the foreign
company’s place of business in Mauritius or, if the foreign company has more than one place of business in Mauritius, at the
foreign company’s principal place of business in Mauritius;
(d) by serving it in accordance with any directions as to service given by the Court having jurisdiction in the proceedings; or
(e) in accordance with an agreement made with the foreign company.
(2) The methods of service specified in subsection (1) are notwithstanding any other enactment, the only methods by which a document in legal
proceedings may be served on a foreign company in Mauritius.
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- How can court papers be validly served on a foreign company operating here?