S.L. 460.8 Art. 8Assistance for the notification of documents.

(1) A request for notification of documents by an applicant authority to a requested authority shall be made in the standard form provided in the Second Schedule and shall be accompanied by the Uniform Notification Form provided in the Third Schedule.

(2) Upon receipt of a request for notification made by an applicant authority, the requested authority shall serve the Uniform Notification Form together with the documentation provided thereof, upon the person who is required to be notified:

Provided that such Form, together with any documentation thereof, shall be served either personally, by mail or by electronic means, and it shall be deemed to have been served on the person required to be notified if it has been addressed to his last known business or private address or his verified electronic address:

Provided further that where the person could not be found, or for other reasons attributable to him, the requested authority shall publish a notice in the Gazette and in one (1) or more daily newspapers, to request the person to collect the documents from the requested authority, and such Form shall be deemed to have been duly served on the person.

(3) The requested authority shall inform the applicant authority of any action taken following its request and the outcome of the service process.

(4) A request for notification may only be submitted by an applicant authority to the requesting authority if the applicant authority is unable to notify the documents in accordance with the rules in the applicant Member State or when such notification would give rise to disproportionate difficulties.

(5) The provisions of sub-article (2) shall be without prejudice to any other form of notification made by a competent authority of the applicant Member State in accordance with the rules in force in that Member State.

(6) A competent authority in another Member State may notify any document directly by mail or electronically to a person in Malta..