SECTION 198

Courtesy of the Cameroon Center for Demoncracy and Human Rights – CCDHR: www.ccdhr.org 50 (1) The Examining Magistrate may carry out, by way of an international rogatory commission, ail measures of investigation in a foreign country, in particular: the questioning of an individual charged in Cameroon the hearing of a witness, and searches and seizures. (2) He shall send the rogatory commission accompanied by a detail report and essential documents for execution, to the State Counsel who shall dispatch it to the minister in charge of justice by hierarchical channel. After study, the Minister in charge of Justice shall forward the rogatory commission to the Minister in charge of External Relations who shall dispatch it by diplomatic channels subject to special conventions prescribing the direct transmission of rogatory commission between the Cameroonian and foreign judicial authorities. (3) In case of urgency the rogatory commission may be transmitted directly between the Cameroonian and foreign judicial authorities. In such a case, a copy of such rogatory commission bearing the inscription « duplicate» and an indication of the date of direct transmission shall be forwarded at the same time or transmitted by the Procureur General to the Minister in charge of Justice who shall transmit it through diplomatic channels.