(1) A document may be issued by a court in the State for the purposes of or in connection with criminal proceedings notwithstanding that the person on whom it is to be served is in another state.
(2) Where the document is not in the official language or one of the official languages of that state, the person at whose request it was issued shall provide the court with a translation of the document, or the material parts of it, into that language or one of those languages, unless subsection (3) applies.
(3) Where such a person believes that the person on whom it is to be served does not understand Irish, English or another language which is the official language or one of the official languages of that state, he or she shall -
(a) inform the court of that belief, and
(b) provide it with a translation of the document, or of the material parts of it, into a language that he or she believes that the person understands.
(4) The document -
(a) if it requires the recipient to appear in proceed
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