Commonwealth Numbered Acts

MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS ACT 1987 No. 85, 1987 - SECT 29

29. (1) Where:

   (a)  a person is to be transported in custody from a foreign country
        through Australia to another foreign country for the purpose of giving
        evidence in a proceeding, or giving assistance in relation to an
        investigation, relating to a criminal matter in the other foreign
        country; and

   (b)  at least one of those foreign countries is a foreign country to which
        this Act applies; the person:

   (c)  may be transported through Australia in the custody of another person;
        and

   (d)  if an aircraft or ship by which the person is being transported lands
        or calls at a place in Australia - shall be kept in such custody as
        the Attorney-General directs in writing until his or her
        transportation is continued.

(2) Where a person who is being held in custody pursuant to a direction under
paragraph (1) (d) and the person's transportation is not, in the opinion of
the Attorney-General, continued within a reasonable time, the Attorney-General
may direct that the person be transported in custody to the foreign country
from which the person was first transported.