628A. (1) The Minister responsible for justice may make regulations to give effect to any arrangement, including any treaty, convention, agreement or understanding, to which Malta is a party or is otherwise applicable to Malta and which makes provision for mutual assistance in criminal matters.

(2) Regulations made under this article may make provision as the Minister may deem appropriate in the circumstances, including the application, with any appropriate modifications, of any of the provisions of this Code or of any other law.


628B. (1) Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred on the Minister by article 628A the Minister may, in particular, make regulations designating the competent person, body corporate or unincorporated, authority or agency for the purpose of providing the assistance that may be requested under any arrangement referred to in article 628A(1) and prescribing the conditions and procedures for the execution of any request for such assistance for all or any of the following purposes –

(a) the questioning of persons being investigated or prosecuted for a criminal offence;
(b) the taking or production of evidence;
(c) the service of any document or act;
(d) the interception of communications;
(e) the temporary transfer of a prisoner for the purposes of identification or for obtaining testimony or other assistance;
(f) the entry into and search of any premises and the seizure of any item;
(g) the taking of fingerprints or of intimate or non- intimate samples;
(h) the exhumation of any body;
(i) the provision of records and documents
(j) the investigation of proceeds of criminal offences;
(k) the monitoring, freezing or seizing of assets of any kind including bank accounts;
(l) the verification of any evidence or other material.

(2) Any regulations made under this article and article 628A shall contain a reference to the arrangement which those regulations are meant to implement.

PART 2
ASSISTANCE TO THE ICC
4. The Minister may make regulations providing for the meeting of requests for assistance by the ICC and in particular and without prejudice to the generality of that power may make regulations prescribing the conditions and procedures for the execution of any such request for all or any of the following purposes -
(b) the taking or production of evidence

PART 2
ASSISTANCE TO THE ICC
4. The Minister may make regulations providing for the meeting of requests for assistance by the ICC and in particular and without prejudice to the generality of that power may make regulations prescribing the conditions and procedures for the execution of any such request for all or any of the following purposes -
(f) the taking of fingerprints or non-intimate samples