--(1) This Part deals with the service on a person in Trinidad and Tobago of any process in connection with civil or commercial proceedings in a foreign court or tribunal where the court receives a written request for service-
----(a) from the Minister with responsibility for External Affairs, with a recommendation by him that service should be effected; or
----(b) where the foreign court or tribunal is in a convention country, from a consular or other authority of that country.
--(2) In this Part-
----"a convention country" means a foreign country in relation to which there subsists a civil procedure convention providing for service in that country of process of the High Court, and 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 15th November, 1965;
----"process" includes a citation; and
----"process server" means the process server appointed under rule 76.3 or his authorised agent.
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