Hong Kong Ordinances

MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS ORDINANCE - SECT 14

Requests by Hong Kong for production, etc. of material

(1) This section applies to a criminal matter involving a Hong Kong 
serious offence if there are reasonable grounds to believe that particular
material or material of a particular description relevant to the criminal 
matter may be-

   (a)  located in a place outside Hong Kong; or

   (b)  likely to become located in a place outside Hong Kong.

(2) Where this section applies to a criminal matter, the Secretary for Justice
may request an appropriate authority of the place outside Hong Kong concerned
to obtain an order or other instrument- (Amended L.N. 362 of 1997)

   (a)  where subsection (1)(a) is applicable, requiring the person who
        appears to be in possession or control of the material to which the
        request relates;

   (b)  where subsection (1)(b) is applicable, requiring the person who
        appears likely to come into possession or control of the material to
        which the request relates, when the person comes into possession or
        control of any such material, to-

        (i)    produce the material for the purposes of- (A) its onward
               transmission to Hong Kong; or (B) enabling photographs or
               copies of the material to be taken or made and the onward
               transmission to Hong Kong of those photographs or copies; or

        (ii)   give access to the material for the purposes of enabling
               photographs or copies of the material to be taken or made and
               the onward transmission to Hong Kong of those photographs or
               copies.