- (i) recovering, forfeiting or confiscating—
- (A) payments or other rewards received in connection with an offence against the law of that country that is a foreign offence, or the value of the payments or rewards; or
- (B) property derived or realised, directly or indirectly, from payments or other rewards received in connection with such an offence or the value of such property; or
- (ii) forfeiting or destroying, or forfeiting or otherwise disposing of, any drug or other substance in respect of which an offence against the corresponding drug law of that country has been committed, or which was used in connection with the commission of such an offence,
- (i) recovering, forfeiting or confiscating—
shall, in any proceedings in a court, be admissible as evidence of the facts so stated.
(2) In any such proceedings, a statement contained in a duly authenticated document, which purports to have been received in evidence or to be a copy of a document so received, or to set out or summarise evidence given in proceedings in a court in a prescribed foreign country, shall be admissible as evidence of any fact stated therein.
(3) A document is duly authenticated for the purposes of subsection (2) if it purports to be certified by any person in his capacity as a judge, magistrate or officer of the court in the prescribed foreign country, or by or on behalf of an appropriate authority of that country.
(4) Nothing in this section shall prejudice the admissibility of any evidence, whether contained in any document or otherwise, which is admissible apart from this section.
Division 6—Assistance in Search and Seizure
Request for search and seizure
33.—(1) The appropriate authority of a prescribed foreign country may request the Attorney-General to assist in obtaining any thing by search or seizure.
