Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS ACT 1987 - SECT 7

  (1)   Subject to this section, this Act applies to all foreign countries.

  (2)   The regulations may provide that this Act applies to a foreign country subject to:

  (a)   any mutual assistance treaty between that country and Australia that is referred to in the regulations; and

  (b)   any multilateral mutual assistance treaty (being a treaty to which that country is a party) that is referred to in the regulations.

  (3)   If the regulations provide, in accordance with subsection   (2), that this Act applies to a foreign country subject to a mutual assistance treaty, then:

  (a)   if the treaty relates wholly to the provision of assistance in criminal matters--this Act applies subject to the limitations, conditions, exceptions or qualifications that are necessary to give effect to the treaty in relation to that country; or

  (b)   if the treaty relates in part to the provision of assistance in criminal matters--this Act applies subject to the limitations, conditions, exceptions or qualifications that are necessary to give effect, in relation to that country, to that part of the treaty that relates to the provision of assistance in criminal matters.