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4 of Anrex A

Evidence in relation to proceedings and orders in a designated country

(1) For the purposes of sections 28 and 29 of the Ordinance,

and of the other provisions of the Ordinance as applied under

paragraph 3(2), a certificate purporting to be issued by or on

behalf of the appropriate authority of a designated country stating

that proceedings have been instituted and have not

(a)

been concluded, or that proceedings are to be

instituted, there;

(b)

that an external confiscation order is in force and

is not subject to appeal;

(c)

that all or a certain amount of the sum payable under

(d)

(e)

an external confiscation order remains unpaid in the

designated country, or that other property

recoverable under an external confiscation order

remains unrecovered there;

that any person has been notified of any proceedings

in accordance with the law of the designated country;

Or

that an order (however described) made by a court in

the designated country has the purpose of recovering

payments or other rewards received in connection with

drug trafficking or their value,

shall, in any proceedings in the High Court, be admissible as

evidence of the facts so stated.

(2) In any such proceedings a statement contained in a

document, duly authenticated, which purports to have been received

in evidence or to be a copy of a document so received, or to set out