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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 31 December 2020 - onwards

Regulation 98A Transitional provision - requests received before commencement day

(1) Regulation 87(2) (amendment of the 2003 Act) does not apply in respect of any request received by the Secretary of State or by the Lord Advocate before commencement day for a process or other document to which section 1 of the 2003 Act (service of overseas process) applied to be served on a person in the United Kingdom.

(2) Paragraphs (6), (7) and (13) of regulation 87 do not apply in respect of any request for assistance in obtaining evidence in a part of the United Kingdom that is received before commencement day by the territorial authority for that part of the United Kingdom.

(3) See Article 62(1)(a) and Title VII of Part 3 of the withdrawal agreement, Article 50(1) and (3) and Title IV of Part 3 of the EEA EFTA separation agreement and sections 7A to 7C of the Withdrawal Act.