Search and seizure - national proceedings

Mexico

Mexico - Constitution 1917 (2015) EN

''TITLE ONE, CHAPTER I: Human Rights and Guarantees, Article 16''

(...) Only a judicial authority can issue a search warrant at the request of the Public

Prosecution Service. The search warrant must describe the place to be searched, the

person or persons to be apprehended and the objects to be seized. Upon the

conclusion of the search, a report must be compiled at the site and before two

witnesses proposed by the occupant of the place searched or, in his absence or

refusal, by the acting authority.

'TITLE ONE, CHAPTER I: Human Rights and Guarantees, Article 16''

(...)Administrative authorities shall have powers to search private households only in

order to enforce sanitary and police regulations. Administrative authorities can

require the accounts books and documents to corroborate compliance with fiscal

provisions, following the procedures and formalities established for search warrants.

Rome Statute

Article 93 Other forms of cooperation

1. States Parties shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Part and under procedures of national law, comply with requests by the Court to provide the following assistance in relation to investigations or prosecutions:

(h) The execution of searches and seizures;