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Section 33

Proof of orders, etc., of prescribed foreign State

of Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 2002

ActIn forceProvision 33 of 45
Section 33
(1)

For the purposes of sections 31 and 32 and the regulations made pursuant to section 44—

(a)

any order made or judgment given by a court of a prescribed foreign State purporting to bear the seal of that court or to

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be signed by any person in his capacity as a judge, magistrate or officer of the court, shall be deemed without further proof to have been duly sealed or to have been signed by that person, as the case may be; and

(b)

a document, duly authenticated, that purports to be a copy of any order made or judgment given by a court of a prescribed foreign State shall be deemed without further proof to be a true copy.

(2)

A document is duly authenticated for the purpose of paragraph (1)(b) if it purports to be certified by any person in his capacity as a judge, magistrate or officer of the court in question or by or on behalf of the appropriate authority of that prescribed foreign

State.