PART 5 - DOMESTIC PROCEDURES FOR OTHER TYPES OF CO-OPERATION

Identifying or locating persons or things

81.
Assistance in locating or identifying persons or things—

(1)This section applies if the ICC requests assistance under any of articles 19(8), 56, 64, or 93(1)(a) of the Statute in locating, or identifying and locating, a person or a thing believed to be in New Zealand.

(2)The Attorney-General may give authority for the request to proceed if the Attorney-General is satisfied that—

(a)the request relates to an investigation being conducted by the Prosecutor or a proceeding before the ICC; and

(b)the person to whom or thing to which the request relates is or may be in New Zealand.

(3)If the Attorney-General gives authority for the request to proceed,—

(a)the Attorney-General must forward the request to the appropriate New Zealand agency; and

(b)that agency must, without delay,—

(i)use its best endeavours to locate or, as the case may be, identify and locate the person to whom or thing to which the request relates; and

(ii)advise the Attorney-General of the outcome of those endeavours.
(4)This section does not give any person a power to enter property in order to locate a person or item.

Cf Statute, articles 19(8), 56, 64, 93(1)(a)