Section 31, The Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2005

(1) Subject to section 32, the competent authority may,upon application to the High Court and upon production to the High Court of a request accompanied by an order issued by a Court of the requesting State directed to any person within the jurisdiction of the High Court to deliver himself or any document or material in his possession or under his control to the jurisdiction of the Court of the requesting State for the purpose of giving evidence in specified proceedings in that Court, obtain an order directed to that person in the same terms as in the order accompanying the request. (2) Upon being served with an order issued in accordance with subsection (1), the person served shall, for the purposes of the order either– (a) deliver himself to the jurisdiction of the High Court; or (b) deliver himself to the jurisdiction of the Court of the requesting State, in accordance with the directions in the order. (3) If a person served with an order issued in accordance with subsection (l) elects to deliver himself to the jurisdiction of the Court of the requesting State and fails to comply with any direction in the order, he shall be deemed immediately to have delivered himself to the jurisdiction of the High Court as provided in paragraph (a) of subsection (2). (4) The High Court shall conduct such proceedings as are necessary to take the evidence of any person delivering himself to the jurisdiction of the High Court pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection (2) and the evidence shall subsequently be transmitted by the competent authority to the foreign State. 22 23 Freezing and forfeiture of property in international cooperation. Request to be accompanied by an evidence order.