TITLE IV
Judicial Assistance to Foreign Countries

CHAPTER TWO
Competences and Procedure

Form and Content of a Request for Judicial Assistance
§ 56. (1) Judicial assistance may only be provided if it is possible to gather from the request the facts and the classification of the punishable act underlying the request. A reference to the criminal-law stipulations applicable or applied in the requesting State shall suffice in the case of requests for the service of documents.

(2) A request for ordering and performing one of the investigative measures governed by Chapter One to Chapter Eight of Title 8 of the Code of Criminal Procedure shall comprise a copy, a certified copy or a photostat copy of the order of the competent authority. If this is not a court order, the authority requesting judicial assistance shall present a statement explaining that the prerequisites required for
such measures are met under the law applicable in the requesting State.