69Production orders in relation to foreign offences

#### 69 Production orders in relation to foreign offences (1) Where a police officer is authorised, under the Mutual Assistance Act, to apply to a Judge of a court for a production order under this Act in respect of a foreign serious offence, the police officer may apply for the order accordingly and this Division applies to the application and to any production order made as a result of the application as if: (a) a reference in this Division to an indictable offence were a reference to the foreign serious offence; and (b) paragraph 66(1)(c) referred to the court specified in the police officer’s authorisation under the Mutual Assistance Act. (2) Where a police officer takes possession of a document under a production order made in respect of a foreign serious offence, the police officer may retain the document for a period of one month pending a written direction from the Minister administering the Mutual Assistance Act as to the manner in which the document is to be dealt with (which may include a direction that the document be sent to an authority of the foreign country that requested the obtaining of the production order).