Article 9
Where a magistrates' court receives from the Secretary of State a request under section 38(1) of the Act (taking evidence at request of court in convention country) to take the evidence of any person, that evidence shall be taken in accordance with the provisions of this rule.
Subject to paragraph (3) below—
the evidence shall be taken in the same manner as if the person concerned were a witness in proceedings on a complaint;
any oral evidence so taken shall be put into writing and read to the person who gave it, who shall be required to sign the document; and
the justices by whom the evidence of any person is so taken shall certify at the foot of any document setting out the evidence of, or produced in evidence by, that person that such evidence was taken, or document received in evidence, as the case may be, by them.
Where the request referred to in section 38(1) of the Act includes a request that the evidence be taken in a particular manner, the court by which the evidence is taken shall, so far as circumstances permit, comply with that request.