INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ACT 2002 - SECT 64 Attorney - General may authorise taking of evidence or the production of documents or articles

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ACT 2002 - SECT 64

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   the ICC requests that:

  (i)   evidence be taken in Australia ; or

  (ii)   documents or other articles in Australia be produced; and

  (b)   the Attorney - General is satisfied that:

  (i)   the request relates to an investigation being conducted by the Prosecutor or a proceeding before the ICC; and

  (ii)   there are reasonable grounds for believing that the evidence can be taken, or the documents or other articles can be produced, as the case may be, in Australia .

  (2)   The Attorney - General is to execute the request by authorising, in writing:

  (a)   the taking of evidence or production of documents or other articles; and

  (b)   the sending of evidence, documents or other articles to the ICC.