Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act
ZambiaAct of Parliament
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The Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act is an Act of the Parliament of Zambia. It contains 50 sections. Read its sections below, or ask Levy any question about the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act and get an answer grounded in the Act with citations.
Sections of the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act
- S. 1This Act may be cited as the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act. Short title
- S. 2I nterpretation
- S. 3I nconsistency of Acts
- S. 4L imitations with respect to application
- S. 5A pplication
- S. 6P ublication of treaties
- S. 7A dministrative arrangements
- S. 8A ssistance may be provided subject to conditions
- S. 9R equests by Zambia
- S. 10R equests by foreign state
- S. 11R efusal of assistance
- S. 12F ines
- S. 13S earch and seizure
- S. 14I ssue and contents of search warrant
- S. 15E xecution of search warrant
- S. 16R eport on execution of warrant
- S. 17H earing on execution of warrant
- S. 18T erms and conditions of sending abroad record or thing seized
- S. 19E vidence for use abroad
- S. 20E vidence gathering order
- S. 21(1) A person designated under paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section twenty Report to magistrate
- S. 22S ending abroad evidence and order
- S. 23C ompliance with terms and conditions of order to send abroad
- S. 24A person named in an order made under subsection (1) of section twenty shall Contempt of Court
- S. 25A rrest warrant for person for non-compliance with evidence gathering order
- S. 26T ransfer of detained
- S. 27M aking of transfer order
- S. 28A bsence deemed imprisonment
- S. 29V ariation of transfer order
- S. 30C opy of order to jailer
- S. 31E xception for young persons
- S. 32L ending exhibits under a loan order
- S. 33M aking of loan order
- S. 34A court that made a loan order may vary its terms and conditions. Variation of loan order
- S. 35C opy of loan order to custodian
- S. 36The burden of proving that an exhibit, lent to a foreign state pursuant to a loan Presumption of
- S. 37An appeal shall lie, on a question of law alone, to the High Court or Supreme Appeal on question of
- S. 38F oreign records
- S. 39F oreign things
- S. 40S tatus of certificate
- S. 41S ervice abroad
- S. 42S pecial authorisation
- S. 43Where the Attorney-General authorises a person who is detained in a foreign Detention of
- S. 44I mmunities
- S. 45Where a Zambian request is presented to a foreign state and a person in the Determination of the
- S. 46P rivilege for foreign records
- S. 47R egulations
- S. IPRELIMINARYPART I
- S. IIFOREIGN INVESTIGATIONS OR OTHER PROCEEDINGS IN RESPECT
- S. IIIADMISSIBILITY IN ZAMBIA OF EVIDENCE OBTAINED ABROADPART III