Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992

65 Regulations

• (1) The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

  • (a) declaring a country to be a foreign country to which Part 3 applies:

  • (b) prescribing the forms of applications, notices, certificates, and other documents for the purposes of this Act, and requiring the use of such forms:

  • (c) prescribing the procedure to be followed in dealing with requests made under this Act, and providing for notification of the results of action taken pursuant to any such request:

  • (d) prescribing the procedures for obtaining evidence, or producing documents or articles, pursuant to a request made under section 31:

  • (e) providing for the payment of fees, travelling allowances, and expenses to any person in New Zealand who gives or provides evidence or assistance pursuant to a request made under this Act:

  • (f) prescribing conditions for the protection of any property sent to or by a foreign country pursuant to a request made under this Act; and making provision for the return of property in New Zealand pursuant to a request:

  • (g) providing for such other matters as are contemplated by or are necessary for giving full effect to this Act and for its due administration.

  (2) Regulations made pursuant to subsection (1)(a) may state that the application of Part 3 to a prescribed foreign country may—

  • (a) be subject to such conditions, exceptions, or qualifications as are specified in the regulations:

  • (b) be subject to such limitations, conditions, exceptions, or qualifications as are necessary to give effect to a treaty between New Zealand and that country and relating (in whole or in part) to the provision of assistance in criminal matters, being a treaty a copy of which is set out in the regulations.

  Compare: Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987 s 44 (Aust)

  Section 65(1)(a): substituted, on 1 March 1999, by section 7 of the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 15).