PART 3 - GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE

30.
Response to be sent to ICC—

(1)The Attorney-General or the Minister, as the case may be, must notify the ICC, without delay, of his or her response to a request for assistance and of the outcome of any action that has been taken in relation to it.

PART 3 - GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE

30.
Response to be sent to ICC—

(4)In the case of an urgent request for assistance, any documents or evidence produced in response must, at the request of the ICC, be sent urgently to it.

(5)Documents or evidence provided or produced in response to a request for assistance from the ICC must be transmitted to the ICC in their original language and form.

PART 11 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Miscellaneous provisions

178.
Certificates given by Attorney-General—

(1)If the Attorney-General receives a request for assistance from the ICC to which Part 5 relates, the Attorney-General may give a certificate certifying all or any of the following facts:

(a)that a request for assistance has been made by the ICC:

(b)that the request meets the requirements of this Act:

(c)that the acceptance of the request has been duly made under and in accordance with this Act.

(2)In any proceeding under this Act, a certificate purporting to have been given under subsection (1) is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, sufficient evidence of the matters certified by the certificate.

Cf 1995 No 27 s 58