PART III - FORMS OF MUTUAL ASSISTANCE

8. Request for transfer of detained persons to Mauritius

(1) Where a foreign State or an international criminal tribunal grants a request made by Mauritius under section 4(2)(l), the Central Authority may, by written notice addressed to the Commissioner of Prisons, authorise -

(a) the temporary detention in Mauritius, for such period as may be specified in the notice, of a person detained in a foreign State, or by an international criminal tribunal, who is to be transferred to Mauritius ; and
(b) the return in custody of the person to the foreign State, or international criminal tribunal, when his presence is no longer required.