Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS ACT 1987 - SECT 18

    Where:

  (a)   a person is to be brought to Australia from a foreign country pursuant to a request under section   16; and

  (b)   the foreign country requests that the person be kept in custody while he or she is in Australia;

the person shall, while the person is in Australia or travelling to or from Australia pursuant to the request, be kept in such custody as the Attorney - General directs in writing.