6E+WIn section 39 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 (service of summons and citation throughout United Kingdom) for subsection (1) there is substituted—
“(1)The following documents, namely—
(a)a summons requiring a person charged with an offence to appear before a court in England or Wales,
(b)a written charge (within the meaning of section 29 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003) charging a person with an offence,
(c)a requisition (within the meaning of that section) requiring a person charged with an offence to appear before a court in England or Wales, and
(d)any other document which, by virtue of any enactment, may or must be served on a person with, or at the same time as, a document mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) above,
may, in such manner as may be prescribed by rules of court, be served on him in Scotland or Northern Ireland.”