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Statutory Rules 1994   No. 3341
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Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (Service of Documents) Regulations
I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the  Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters  Act 1987.
Dated 4 October 1994.
 
                                                                                       P. BENNETT
                                                                                       Administrator
By His Excellency’s Command,
 
 
M. LAVARCH
Attorney-General
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Citation
               1.   These Regulations may be cited as the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (Service of Documents) Regulations.
[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]
Interpretation
               2.   In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:
“the Act” means the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987.
Application of the Act
               3.   (1)    The Act applies in relation to each foreign country specified in the Schedule, subject to the limitations or exceptions stated in subregulations (2) and (3).
             (2)   Parts II, III, IV, V, VI and VIA of the Act do not apply in relation to any foreign country specified in the Schedule.
             (3)   The Act applies in relation to each foreign country specified in the Schedule only in relation to the service of documents under, or in accordance with, the Act.
Effect of Schedule
               4.   The inclusion in the Schedule of a reference to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) is not taken to imply recognition of that entity by Australia.
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SCHEDULE                                 Regulation 3                                              
 
 
COUNTRIES TO WHICH PARTS I, VII AND VIII OF
THE ACT APPLY
 
 
 
Afghanistan
Bhutan

Albania
Bolivia

Algeria
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Angola
Botswana

Antigua and Barbuda
Brazil

Armenia
Brunei Darussalam

Azerbaijan
Bulgaria

Bahamas
Burkina Faso

Bahrain
Burundi

Bangladesh
Cambodia

Barbados
Cameroon

Belarus
Cape Verde

Belgium
Central African Republic

Belize
Chad

Benin
Chile

China
Gambia

Colombia
Georgia

Comoros
Ghana

Congo
Greece

Costa Rica
Grenada

Côte d’Ivoire
Guatemala

Croatia
Guinea

Cuba
Guinea-Bissau

Cyprus
Guyana

Czech Republic
Haiti

Denmark
Holy See

Djibouti
Honduras

Dominica
Hungary

Dominican Republic
Iceland

Ecuador
India

Egypt
Indonesia

El Salvador
Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Equatorial Guinea
Iraq

Estonia
Ireland

Ethiopia
Israel

Fiji
Jamaica

Gabon
Jordan

Kazakhstan
Mauritius

Kenya
Micronesia (Federated States of)

Kiribati
Moldova (Republic of)

 
Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of
Monaco

Kuwait
Mongolia

Kyrgyzstan
Morocco

 
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Mozambique

Latvia
Myanmar

Lebanon
Namibia

Lesotho
Nauru

Liberia
Nepal

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Nicaragua

Liechtenstein
Niger

Lithuania
Nigeria

Madagascar
Norway

Malawi
Oman

Malaysia
Pakistan

Maldives
Panama

Mali
Paraguay

Malta
Peru

Marshall Islands
Poland

Mauritania
Qatar

Romania
Sweden

Russian Federation
Syrian Arab Republic

Rwanda
Tajikistan

Saint Kitts and Nevis
Thailand

Saint Lucia
Togo

 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Tonga

San Marino
Trinidad and Tobago

Sao Tome and Principe
Tunisia

Saudi Arabia
Turkey

Senegal
Turkmenistan

Seychelles
Tuvalu

Sierra Leone
Uganda

Slovakia
Ukraine

Slovenia
United Arab Emirates

Solomon Islands
United Republic of Tanzania

Somalia
Uruguay

South Africa
Uzbekistan

Sri Lanka
Venezuela

Sudan
Viet Nam

Suriname
Western Samoa

Swaziland
Yemen

 
Yugoslavia (Serbia and
Montenegro), Federal Republic of
Zambia

Zaire
Zimbabwe

 
 

 
 

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NOTE
1.   Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on  11 October 1994.