Hong Kong Ordinances

MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS ORDINANCE - SECT 27

Requests to Hong Kong for enforcement of external confiscation order

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 25 of 1998 s. 2

(1) Where a place outside Hong Kong requests the Secretary for Justice to make
arrangements-

   (a)  for the enforcement of an external confiscation order; or

   (b)  where an external confiscation order may be made in a proceeding which
        has been or is to be instituted in that place, to restrain dealing in
        any property against which the order may be enforced or which may be
        available to satisfy the order, then the Secretary for Justice may, in
        relation to that request, act for that place under the provisions of
        Schedule 2.

(2) A request under subsection (1) shall, unless the contrary is shown, be
deemed to constitute the authority of the place outside Hong Kong concerned
for the Secretary for Justice to act on its behalf in any proceedings in the
Court of First Instance under section 28 or under any provision of Schedule 2.
(Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2) (Amended L.N. 362 of 1997)