Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992

Requests to New Zealand - Requests for search warrants and production orders - Interpretation

42A: Interpretation

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You are reading about a law called the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992. In this law, some words have special meanings. The word "document" means the same as it does in section 70 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012. You will also see the term "notifiable person", which has the same meaning as in section 49A. When the law talks about something produced under a production order, it is talking about a document produced under that order.

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Part 3Requests to New Zealand
Requests for search warrants and production orders: Interpretation

42AInterpretation

  1. In this subpart,—

    document has the same meaning as in section 70 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012

      notifiable person has the same meaning as in section 49A.

      1. In this subpart, a reference to a thing that is produced under a production order is a reference to a document that is produced under a production order.

      Notes
      • Section 42A: inserted, on , by section 37 of the Budapest Convention and Related Matters Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 39).