Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (Service of Documents) Regulations (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1994 No. 3341

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Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters

(Service of Documents) Regulations

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of

Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make

the following Regulations under the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters

Act 1987.

Dated 4 October 1994.

P. BENNETT Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

M. LAVARCH Attorney-General

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Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Mutual

Assistance in Criminal Matters (Service of Documents) Regulations.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act

1901, s. 48.]

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Interpretation

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention

appears:

“the Act” means the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act

1987.

Application of the Act

3. (1) The Act applies in relation to each foreign country

specified in the Schedule, subject to the limitations or exceptions

stated in subregulations (2) and (3).

(2) Parts II, III, IV, V, VI and VIA of the Act do not apply in relation to any foreign country specified in the Schedule.

(3) The Act applies in relation to each foreign country specified in the Schedule only in relation to the service of documents under, or in accordance with, the Act.

Effect of Schedule

4. The inclusion in the Schedule of a reference to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) is not taken to imply recognition of that entity by Australia.

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SCHEDULE Regulation 3

COUNTRIES TO WHICH PARTS I, VII AND VIII OF

THE ACT APPLY

Afghanistan	Bhutan
Albania	Bolivia
Algeria	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Angola	Botswana
Antigua and Barbuda	Brazil
Armenia	Brunei Darussalam
Azerbaijan	Bulgaria
Bahamas	Burkina Faso
Bahrain	Burundi
Bangladesh	Cambodia
Barbados	Cameroon
Belarus	Cape Verde
Belgium	Central African Republic
Belize	Chad

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SCHEDULE—continued

Benin	Chile
China	Gambia
Colombia	Georgia
Comoros	Ghana
Congo	Greece
Costa Rica	Grenada
Côte d’Ivoire	Guatemala
Croatia	Guinea
Cuba	Guinea-Bissau
Cyprus	Guyana
Czech Republic	Haiti
Denmark	Holy See
Djibouti	Honduras
Dominica	Hungary
Dominican Republic	Iceland
Ecuador	India
Egypt	Indonesia
El Salvador	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Equatorial Guinea	Iraq
Estonia	Ireland
Ethiopia	Israel
Fiji	Jamaica

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SCHEDULE—continued

Gabon	Jordan
Kazakhstan	Mauritius
Kenya	Micronesia (Federated States of)
Kiribati	Moldova (Republic of)
Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	Monaco
Kuwait	Mongolia
Kyrgyzstan	Morocco
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	Mozambique
Latvia	Myanmar
Lebanon	Namibia
Lesotho	Nauru
Liberia	Nepal
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	Nicaragua
Liechtenstein	Niger
Lithuania	Nigeria
Madagascar	Norway
Malawi	Oman
Malaysia	Pakistan
Maldives	Panama
Mali	Paraguay
Malta	Peru

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SCHEDULE—continued

Marshall Islands	Poland
Mauritania	Qatar
Romania	Sweden
Russian Federation	Syrian Arab Republic
Rwanda	Tajikistan
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Thailand
Saint Lucia	Togo
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Tonga
San Marino	Trinidad and Tobago
Sao Tome and Principe	Tunisia
Saudi Arabia	Turkey
Senegal	Turkmenistan
Seychelles	Tuvalu
Sierra Leone	Uganda
Slovakia	Ukraine
Slovenia	United Arab Emirates
Solomon Islands	United Republic of Tanzania
Somalia	Uruguay
South Africa	Uzbekistan
Sri Lanka	Venezuela
Sudan	Viet Nam

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SCHEDULE—continued

Suriname	Western Samoa
Swaziland	Yemen

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SCHEDULE—continued

Yugoslavia (Serbia and	Zambia
Montenegro), Federal Republic of
Zaire	Zimbabwe

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NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette