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Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992

Requests by New Zealand - Assistance in arranging attendance of person in New Zealand

12: Assistance in arranging attendance of person

You could also call this:

"Getting help from another country to bring someone to New Zealand to help with a crime"

Illustration for Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992

You can get help from another country to bring someone to New Zealand. The Attorney-General must think the person has important information about a crime in New Zealand. The Attorney-General can ask the other country for help to bring the person to New Zealand. You can travel to New Zealand to give information or help with a crime. The Attorney-General must make sure you agree to come to New Zealand. The Attorney-General can make plans with the other country to bring you to New Zealand and take care of you while you are here. The plans include how you will get to New Zealand and how you will get back home. The Attorney-General also makes plans for your safety and other important things while you are in New Zealand.

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Part 2Requests by New Zealand
Assistance in arranging attendance of person in New Zealand

12Assistance in arranging attendance of person

  1. Where the Attorney-General is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that a person in a foreign country could give or provide evidence or assistance relevant to any criminal matter in New Zealand, the Attorney-General may request that foreign country to assist in arranging the attendance of the person in New Zealand to give or provide that evidence or, as the case may be, that assistance.

  2. Where the Attorney-General is satisfied that a person in respect of whom a request is made to a foreign country under subsection (1) consents to travel to New Zealand to give or provide evidence or assistance pursuant to that request, the Attorney-General may make arrangements with that foreign country for the purposes of—

  3. the removal of the person to New Zealand:
    1. in the case of a foreign prisoner, the custody of that person while in New Zealand:
      1. the return of the person to the foreign country:
        1. other relevant matters.