PART 5
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
agency, with respect to a specified communication, discovers that a service
provider in another country is involved in the transmission of the
communication, the Public Prosecutor is:
(2)
(a) _
to expeditiously disclose to the requesting foreign country a
sufficient amount of traffic data to identify that service provider:
and
(b) _
to disclose the path through which the communication was
transmitted.
Expedited disclosure of preserved traffic data under subsection (1) may
only be withdrawn if:
(a) _
(b)
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(1)
(2)
the request concems a political offence or an offence related to a
political offence; or
the Public Prosecutor considers that the execution of the request is
likely to prejudice Vanuatu’s sovereignty, security or public
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interest.
Mutual assistance regarding accessing of stored computer data
A foreign country may request to order or to search or similarly access,
seize or similarly secure, and disclose data stored by means of a computer
system located within the territory of Vanuatu, in relation to a foreign
serious offence, including data that has been preserved pursuant to
section 18.
A request for mutual assistance regarding accessing of stored computer
data is to, as far as practicable:
(a)
(b)
give the name of the authority conducting the investigation or
proceeding to which the request relates; and
give a description of the nature of the criminal matter and a
statement setting out a summary of the relevant facts and laws; and
(c)
_ give a description of the purpose of the request and of the nature of
the assistance being sought; and
(d)
in the case ofa request to restrain or confiscate assets believed on
reasonable grounds to be located in the requested country:
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give details of the offencein question; or
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