South Africa

Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Act No. 27 of 2002)

Chapter 4
Cooperation with and assistence to Court in or outside South Africa

Part 2
Judicial assistance to court (ss 14-32)

21 Service of process and documents

(1) Upon receipt of a request by the Court for assistance in effecting the service of process or documents, except a summons contemplated in section 19 (1), the Central Authority must send the request, together with the process or documents, to the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service for service on the person concerned.

(2) The National Commissioner of the South African Police Service must cause the process or documents to be served on the person concerned in the manner specified in the request.

(3) The National Commissioner of the South African Police Service must send the return of service to the Central Authority for transmission to the Court.

Keywords

Service of documents - national procedures for ICC proceedings



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