Cap. 621 Art. 55Applicability of Part IV in transnational affairs.

(1) Where pursuant to and in accordance with any treaty, convention or agreement, applicable to Malta, or where in accordance with European Union Law, a request is made to the Attorney General or the Director for the monitoring of any account, the investigation of any matter, the attachment of any property or the seizure and freezing of any property in Malta, by a judicial, prosecuting or administrative authority of any place outside Malta, in connection with the investigation or prosecution of an equivalent offence, or in connection with the enforcement of a judgment relative to an equivalent offence, the Attorney General or the Director as the case may be may request the Criminal Court to make a Monitoring Order, or an Investigation Order, an Attachment Order and, or, a Seizing and Freezing Order, in accordance with and having all the effects as provided in Part IV as if the equivalent offence were a relevant offence.

(2) For the purpose of this Part an "equivalent offence" is an offence under the law of the judicial, prosecuting or administrative authority making the request, by whatever name called, which had it been committed in Malta would constitute a relevant offence.