CHAPTER FIVE
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE
Division Three
Requests by foreign authorities
Section 538
Responsibility for execution of requests
(1) Requests of a foreign authority for legal assistance shall be sent to the Ministry of Justice.
(2) The district prosecutor’s office in whose district the requested assistance shall be carried out shall have the responsibility for the execution of the request for legal assistance made by a foreign authority. If more prosecutors` offices have territorial jurisdiction, the ministry of justice shall send the request to the General Prosecution for the decision on which prosecution office shall provide for its execution.
(3) If the foreign authority requests that the examination of a person or another act of legal assistance shall be executed by the court by the reason of applicability of the act in the criminal proceedings in requesting State, the prosecutor shall submit the request in that part for execution to the District Court in whose district the requested assistance shall be carried out. If the exclusive subject of the request is the act, which has to be executed by a court, the request shall be sent to the court directly by the Ministry of Justice.
Competent national authority
Competent national judicial authority
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