Rule 6.40 Scope and interpretation

(1)

This Chapter contains rules about—

(a)

service of application forms and other documents out of the jurisdiction; and

(b)

the procedure for service.

(“Jurisdiction” is defined in rule 2.3.)

(2)

In this Chapter—

“application form” includes an application notice;
“Commonwealth State” means a State listed in Schedule 3 to the British Nationality Act 1981 M1; and
“the Hague Convention” means the Convention on the service abroad of judicial and extra-judicial documents in civil or commercial matters signed at the Hague on November 15, 1965.

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