Paragraph 6.32 Scope and definitions

(1)

This Section of this Part—

(a)

applies to the service in England or Wales of any court process in connection with civil or commercial proceedings in a foreign court or tribunal; but

(b)

does not apply where the Service Regulation applies.

(The Service Regulation is annexed to the relevant practice direction)

(2)

In this Section—

(a)

“convention country”—

(i)

means a foreign country in relation to which there is a civil procedure convention providing for service in that country of process of the High Court; and

(ii)

includes a country which is a party to the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extra-Judicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters signed at the Hague on 15 November 1965; and

(b)

“process server” means—

(i)

a process server appointed by the Lord Chancellor to serve documents to which this Section applies, or

(ii)

his authorised agent.