Cap. 443 Art. 7Method of service. Cap. 12. Cap. 12.

Where Malta is the State addressed for the purposes of

Article 5 of The Hague Convention of 1965, the central authority shall cause the document to be served by attaching the document to a judicial letter filed in the Registry of the Civil Court, First Hall, to be served on the person addressed together with such document, and such judicial letter and accompanying documents shall be served in accordance with the methods prescribed in -

(a) article 187(1), (2), (4) or (7) of the Code of

Organization and Civil Procedure, as the circumstan-ces of the case may require: Provided that the reference to curators appointed by the court in the said article 187(7) shall not apply; or

(b) article 187(8) of the Code of Organization and Civil

Procedure: Provided that the proviso to the said article 187(8) shall not apply, as the central authority may deem fit to specify in the circumstances of each case.