Article 6

Article 6

The provisions of the foregoing Articles shall not interfere with -

(1) the freedom to send documents, through postal channels, directly to the persons concerned abroad;

(2) the freedom of the persons concerned to have service effected directly through the judicial officers or competent officials of the country of destination;

(3) the freedom of each State to have service effected directly by its diplomatic or consular agents of documents intended for persons abroad.

In each of these cases, the freedom mentioned shall only exist if allowed by conventions concluded between the States concerned or if, should there be no convention, the State on the territory of which service must be effected does not object. That State may not object when, in the cases mentioned in sub-paragraph 3 of the above paragraph, the document is to be served without any compulsion on a national of the requesting State.