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Magistrates' Courts Act, 1944 (Act No. 32 of 1944)

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Rules Regulating the Conduct of the Proceedings on the Magistrates' Courts of South Africa

7. Amendment of summons

 

(1) Subject to the provisions of this rule, a summons may be amended by the plaintiff before service as he or she may deem fit.

 

(2) Any alteration or amendment of a summons before service and whether before or after issue, shall, before the summons is served, be initialled by the registrar or clerk of the court in the original summons, and, until so initialled, such alteration or amendment shall have no effect.

 

(3)        

(a) When no first name or initial or an incorrect or incorrectly spelt first name is or not all the first names of the defendant are reflected in the summons and the first name or initial or the correct or correctly spelt first name of the defendant is or all the first names of the defendant are furnished by the person on whom service of the summons was effected, and such first name or initial or correct or correctly spelt first name is disclosed in the return of the sheriff, or all the first names of the defendant are so disclosed, the registrar or clerk of the court may, at the request of the plaintiff and without notice to the defendant, insert such name or initial in the summons as being the name or initial of the defendant and such amendment shall for all purposes be considered as if it had been made before service of the summons.

(b)        Rule 55A shall apply to the amendment of a summons after service.