32.
Registration of orders.
33. Requests for search and seizure warrants in respect of tainted property.
34.
35.
Requests for interim interdicts.
Requests for information gathering orders.
PART VII
GENERAL
36.
37.
38.
39.
Service of documents.
Evidence.
Authentication of documents.
Regulations.
AN ACT to provide for mutual assistance in criminal matters between Zimbabwe and Commonwealth countries and other foreign countries; to facilitate the provision and obtaining by Zimbabwe
of such assistance, and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
[Date of commencement: 1st April, 1991.]
PART I
P RELIMINARY
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Short title
This Act may be cited as the Criminal Matters (Mutual Assistance) Act [Chapter 9:06].
Interpretation
(1) In this Act—
“appropriate authority” means the authority of a foreign country which is authorized in terms of its law to
make requests;
“dealing with property” includes removing the property from Zimbabwe or receiving or making a gift of the
property;
“financial institution” has the meaning assigned to it in the Serious Offences (Confiscation of Profits) Act
[Chapter 9:17];
“foreign forfeiture order” means an order registered in Zimbabwe in terms of subsection (1) of section thirtytwo for the forfeiture of property located in Zimbabwe in respect of a foreign specified offence;
“foreign interdict” means an order registered in Zimbabwe in terms of subsection (2) of section thirty-two in
respect of a foreign specified offence and restraining any person from dealing with any property referred
to in the order;
“foreign pecuniary penalty order” means an order imposing a pecuniary penalty in respect of a foreign specified offence and registered in Zimbabwe in terms of subsection (1) of section thirty-two but does not include an order for the payment of money by way of compensation, restitution or damages;
“foreign specified offence” means a specified offence against a law of a foreign country;
“interdict” means an order restraining any person from dealing with property;
“Minister” means the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs or any other Minister to whom the
President may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act;
“money-laundering offence”, in relation to the proceeds of a serious narcotics offence, means an offence involving—
(a) the engaging, directly or indirectly, in a transaction which involves money or other property
which is, in terms of the Serious Offences (Confiscation of Profits) Act [Chapter 9:17] proceeds
of the serious narcotics offence; or
(b) the receiving, possessing, concealing, disposing of or bringing into a country of money or other
property which is, in terms of the Serious Offences (Confiscation of Profits) Act [Chapter 9:17],
proceeds of the serious narcotics offence;
“monitoring order” has the meaning assigned to it in the Serious Offences (Confiscation of Profits) Act
[Chapter 9:17];
“pecuniary penalty order” has the meaning assigned to it in the Serious Offences (Confiscation of Profits)
Act [Chapter 9:17];
“police officer” means any member of the Police Force of or above the rank of inspector;
“production order” has the meaning assigned to it in the Serious Offences (Confiscation of Profits) Act
[Chapter 9:17];