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(2)This section applies—
(a) to any process issued or made in that country for the purposes of criminal proceedings,
(b) to any document issued or made by an administrative authority in that country in admi-
nistrative proceedings,
(c) to any process issued or made for the purposes of any proceedings on an appeal before a
court in that country against a decision in administrative proceedings,
(d) to any document issued or made by an authority in that country for the purposes of cle-
mency proceedings.
(3) The Secretary of State may cause the process or document to be served by post or, if the
request is for personal service, direct the chief officer of police for the area in which that person
appears to be to cause it to be personally served on him.
(4) In relation to any process or document to be served in Scotland, references in this section
to the Secretary of State are to be read as references to the Lord Advocate.
2- Service of overseas process: supplementary
(1) Subsections (2) and (3) apply to any process served in a part of the United Kingdom by
virtue of section 1 requiring a person to appear as a party or attend as a witness.
(2) No obligation under the law of that part to comply with the process is imposed by virtue
of its service.
(3) The process must be accompanied by a notice—
(a) stating the effect of subsection (2),
(b) indicating that the person on whom it is served may wish to seek advice as to the
possible consequences of his failing to comply with the process under the law of the country
where it was issued or made, and
(c) indicating that under that law he may not be accorded the same rights and privile-
ges as a party or as a witness as would be accorded to him in proceedings in the part of the United
Kingdom in which the process is served.
(4) Where a chief officer of police causes any process or document to be served under section
1, he must at once—
(a) tell the Secretary of State (or, as the case may be, the Lord Advocate) when and how
it was served, and
(b) (if possible) provide himwith a receipt signed by the person on whom it was served.