Criminal Code (Cap. 9)

Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 628B

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628B. (1) Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred on the Minister by article 628A the Minister may, in particular, make regulations designating the competent person, body corporate or unincorporate d, authority or agency for the purpose of providing the assistan ce that may be requested under any arrangement referred to in article 628A(1) and prescribing the conditions and procedures for the execution of any request for such assistance for all or any of the following purposes – (a) the questioning of persons being investigated or prosecuted for a criminal offence; (b) the taking or production of evidence; (c) the service of any document or act; (d) the interception of communications; (e) the temporary transfer of a prisoner for the purposes of identification or for obtaining testimony or other assistance; (f) the entry into and search of any premises and the seizure of any item; (g) the taking of fingerprints or of intimate or non- intimate samples; (h) the exhumation of any body; (i) the provision of records and documents; (j) the investigation of proceed s of criminal offences; (k) the monitoring, freezing or seizing of assets of any kind including bank accounts; (l) the verification of any ev idence or other material. (2) Any regulations made under this article and article 628A shall contain a reference to the arrangement which those regulations are meant to implement. Added by: X.2021.3. Title IX OF COOPERATION BETWEEN TH E NATIONAL AUTHORITIES AND THE OFFICE OF THE EURO PEAN PUBLIC PROSECUTOR Scope and applicability.

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