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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;