WEEK 6:Notice and Tender

Notice and Tender 102. Service or tender on or to agent. Where the person on or to whom any notice or tender is to be served or made under this Chapter does not reside in the district in which the mortgaged property of some part thereof is situate, service or tender on or to an agent holding a general power-of-attorney from such person or otherwise duly authorised to accept such service or tender shall be deemed sufficient. Where no person or agent on whom such notice should be served can be found or is known] to the. person required to serve the notice, the later person may apply to any Court in which a suit might be brought for redemption of the mortgaged property, and such Court shall direct in what manner such notice shall be served, and any notice served in compliance with such direction shall be deemed sufficient: Provided that, in the case of a notice required by Section 83, in the case of a deposit, the application shall be made to the Court in which the deposit has been made]. Where no person or agent to whom such tender should be made can be found or is known] to the person desiring to make the tender, the later person may deposit '[in any Court in which a suit might be brought for redemption of the mortgaged property] the amount sought to be tendered, and such deposit shall have the effect of a tender of such amount.

103. Notice, etc., to or by person incompetent to contract. Where, under the provisions of this Chapter, a notice is to be served [on or by], or a tender or deposit made or accepted or taken out of Court by, any person incompetent to contract, such notice may be served on or by], or tender or deposit made, accepted, or taken by the legal curator of the property of such person; but where there is no such curator, and it is requisite or desirable in the interests of such person that a notice should be served or a tender or deposit made under the provisions of this Chapter, application may be made to any Court in which a suit might be brought for the redemption of the mortgage to appoint a guardian ad litem for the purpose of serving or receiving service of such notice, or making or accepting such tender, or making or taking out of Court such deposit, and for the performance of all consequential acts which could or ought to be done by such person if he were competent to contract; and the provisions of [Order XXXII in the First Schedule to the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (V of 1908)] shall, so far as may be, apply to such application and to the parties thereto and to the guardian appointed thereunder. 104. Power to make rules. The High Court may, from time to time, make rules consistent with this Act for carrying out, in itself and in the Courts of Civil Judicature subject to its superintendence, the provisions contained in this Chapter.