Declarations
Reservations
Articles: 1,13,20
(Translation)
The Kingdom of Morocco declares that applications for legal aid and applications for rendering enforceable orders for payment of costs and expenses shall be in Arabic.
The Kingdom of Morocco reserves the right to exclude the application of Article 1 of the Convention in the case of persons who are not nationals of a Contracting State but who are habitually resident in a Contracting State other than the reserving State or were formerly habitually resident in a reserving State, if there is no reciprocity of treatment between the reserving State and the State of which the applicants for legal aid are nationals.
The Kingdom of Morocco reserves the right to exclude the application of Article 13, paragraph 2, of the Convention.
Where a person has received legal aid for proceedings in a Contracting State and the decision has been given in those proceedings, he is not entitled ipso facto to legal aid in Morocco if he seeks to secure the recognition or enforcement of that decision there. A new application must be made and normal procedure followed.
The Kingdom of Morocco reserves the right to exclude the application of Article 20 of the Convention without prejudice to any bilateral convention concluded by Morocco which contains provisions to the contrary.