No. 1774
The Royal Netherlands Embassy presents its compliments to the Ministry of External
Affairs of the Commonwealth of Dominica and, with reference to the Ministry's Note
no. Ex/160/01-758 of 7 July 1987, has the honour to propose that the Convention between
the Netherlands and Great Britain regarding legal proceedings in Civil and Commercial
matters, signed at London on 31 May 1932 and supplemented on 17 November 1967 at The
Hague, shall continue to be in force between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the
Commonwealth of Dominica, it being understood that with respect to the Commonwealth
of Dominica the Convention shall be modified by substituting the words "Registrar
of the High court" for "Senior Master of the Supreme Court of Judicature", wherever
the latter appear in the text, and that this Note and the Ministry's reply thereto
shall constitute an agreement to this effect.
The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has the honour further to propose
that this agreement shall be applied in such a way that requests by the competent
judicial authority in one country to the competent judicial authority in the other
country for service of judicial and extra-judicial documents or for the taking of
evidence may either be addressed and sent in accordance with the regime provided for
in and under the Convention of 1932 or be communicated directly between these judicial
authorities.
The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands further proposes that this agreement
shall enter into force on the date on which the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
has notified the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica in writing that the procedures
constitutionally required in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (the Kingdom as a whole)
in respect of this agreement have been complied with.
The Royal Netherlands Embassy avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the Ministry
of External Affairs of the Commonwealth of Dominica the assurances of its highest
consideration.
Port of Spain, 21 June 1990