Foreign Evidence (Foreign Material — Criminal and Related Civil Proceedings) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1)¹

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Foreign Evidence Act 1994.

Dated 8 April 2004

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

CHRISTOPHER MARTIN ELLISON

1              Name of Regulations

                These Regulations are the Foreign Evidence (Foreign Material — Criminal and Related Civil Proceedings) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1).

2              Commencement

                These Regulations commence on the date of their notification in the Gazette.

3              Amendment of Foreign Evidence (Foreign Material — Criminal and Related Civil Proceedings) Regulations

                Schedule 1 amends the Foreign Evidence (Foreign Material — Criminal and Related Civil Proceedings) Regulations.

Schedule 1        Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1]           Regulation 1

substitute

1              Name of Regulations

                These Regulations are the Foreign Evidence (Foreign Material — Criminal and Related Civil Proceedings) Regulations 1994.

[2]           Schedule, item 5, column 3, paragraph (b)

substitute

               (b)    a proceeding under the Crimes (Confiscation of Profits) Act 1988 (WA), as in force immediately before 1 January 2001, or under the Criminal Property Confiscation Act 2000 (WA); or

1.       These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1994 No. 333.

2.       Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 April 2004.