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3.
This Agreement is intended solely for mutual The provisions of the
assistance between the Parties.
Agreement shall not create any right on the part of any private person to obtain assistance under this Agreement or to impede the execution of a request.
1.
ARTICLE 2
DEFINITIONS
For the purposes of this Agreement :
(a) proceedings are instituted :
(i) in
Hong
when Kong
a
magistrate
when a
issues a warrant or summons,
person is charged with
an offence
after having been taken into custody
without a warrant, or when a bill of
indictment is preferred,
is earliest in time;
whichever
(ii) in Australia when an information has
been
laid
before a competent
authority, when a person is charged
with an offence after having been
taken into custody
warrant,
without a
:
Or
when
a
bill of
whichever
indictment is preferred,
is earliest in time;