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Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992

Requests to New Zealand - Preliminary provisions - Preliminary provisions

25: Requests to be made to Attorney-General

You could also call this:

"Asking for help with a crime: send the request to the Attorney-General"

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When a foreign country asks for help with a crime, you need to send the request to the Attorney-General. You can also send it to someone the Attorney-General has chosen to receive these requests. The Attorney-General must have given this person permission in writing. If you send the request to the chosen person, it is like sending it straight to the Attorney-General. This is how it works for the purposes of this law. You follow the same rules as if you had sent it to the Attorney-General directly.

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Part 3Requests to New Zealand
Preliminary provisions: Preliminary provisions

25Requests to be made to Attorney-General

  1. Every request by a foreign country for assistance in a criminal matter pursuant to this Part shall be made—

  2. to the Attorney-General; or
    1. to a person authorised by the Attorney-General, in writing, to receive requests by foreign countries under this Part.

      1. Where a request by a foreign country is made to a person authorised under subsection (1)(b), the request shall be taken, for the purposes of this Act, to have been made to the Attorney-General.