Slovakia

Criminal Procedure Code No. 301/2005 Coll. - Part Five: Legal Relations with Abroad

CHAPTER FIVE
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE

Division Two
Requests by Slovak authorities

Section 532
Form of transmission of requests

(1) Requests for legal assistance emanating from the Slovak pre-trial authorities shall be transmitted abroad through the General Prosecutor’s Office. Requests for legal assistance emanating from the Slovak courts shall be transmitted abroad through the Ministry of Justice. Diplomatic channels shall not be excluded.

(2) If an international treaty provides so, the Slovak authorities may transmit their requests abroad through other channels than the ones provided for in paragraph 1. The policeman may transmit the requests abroad solely through the good offices of a prosecutor.

Keywords

Competent national authority



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