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Section 104, Terrorism Act, 2012
Status not yet checkedTerrorism Act, 2012, Sierra Leone
(1) Subject to section 105, the competent authority mayupon application to the court and upon production to the 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 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 court;
(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 (1) 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 court as provided in paragraph (a) of
subsection (2).
(4) The court shall conduct such proceedings as are
necessary to take the evidence of any person delivering himself to
the jurisdiction of the court under paragraph (a) of subsection (2)
and the evidence shall subsequently be transmitted to the competent
authority of the foreign State.
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