Assistance under Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 2000
10.—(1)  Assistance under any provision of Part 3 of the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 2000 may be provided by Singapore to a Convention country for a criminal matter involving a relevant offence of that country.
(2)  For the purposes of subsection (1) —
(a)a relevant offence is deemed to be a foreign serious offence for the purposes of that Act;
(b)that offence is deemed not to be an offence of a political character for the purposes of that Act;
(c)section 20(3) of that Act does not apply to any request for assistance mentioned in subsection (1); and
(d)the reference to the appointed date in the definition of “foreign confiscation order” in section 2(1) of that Act is a reference to 1 April 2006.
(3)  The following offences are deemed to be Singapore offences for the purposes of the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 2000:
(a)an offence specified in the First Schedule committed to or in relation to an internationally protected person;
(b)an offence specified in the Second Schedule committed to or in relation to relevant premises or a vehicle used by an internationally protected person;
(c)an abetment of or a conspiracy or an attempt to commit an offence under paragraph (a) or (b);
(d)an offence against an internationally protected person.
(4)  In this section, “relevant offence”, in relation to a Convention country, means an offence against the law of that country where the act or omission constituting the offence or the equivalent act or omission —
(a)would constitute an offence against an internationally protected person; or
(b)would be such an offence if the description concerned contained a reference to any intent or state of mind on the part of the person committing the offence, or to any circumstance of aggravation, necessary to constitute the offence.