Article 42 1. The competent authorities shall work towards facilitating cooperation with their counterparts in foreign countries within the framework of approved international, regional and bilateral agreements or in conformity with the principle of reciprocity with a view to expediting information exchange, ensuring the early warning of cybercrime and communications offences, avoiding their perpetration, and helping to investigate them and prosecute their perpetrators. 2. The cooperation referred to under the previous Paragraph shall depend on the concerned foreign state’s commitment to keep secret the information transferred thereto and its commitment not to transfer it to a third party or exploit it for other purposes than the combating of the crimes specified under this Law by Decree. Article 43 1. The competent authorities must provide assistance to counterpart agencies in other states, for the purposes of offering mutual legal aid and extraditing criminals in the investigations and criminal proceedings associated with the crimes provided for under this Law by Decree, in accordance with the rules which are prescribed by the Penal Procedure Law in force, bilateral or multilateral agreements to which the State is a party or the principle of reciprocity, without prejudice to the provisions of this Law by Decree or any other law. 2. The application for legal aid or application for the extradition of criminals, in reference of the provisions of this Law by Decree, shall only be executed in the event the laws of the applicant state and laws of the State penalise the crime the subject matter of the application or a similar crime. Dual criminality shall be deemed to be fulfilled in disregard of whether the laws of the applicant state include the crime within the category of the same crimes or uses in the designation of the crime the same term used in the State, on condition that the act the subject matter of the application is incriminated in pursuance of the laws of the applicant state. Article 44 Without prejudice to any heavier penalty provided by the Penal Law in force or any other law, the perpetrators of the crimes punishable in accordance with the provisions of this Law by Decree shall be liable to the penalties prescribed thereunder. Article 45 Each person who perpetrates an act that constitutes a crime under any effective piece of legislation, and not provided for under this Law by Decree, using the electronic network or a means of information technology, or is involved as an accomplice, abettor or accessory to its perpetration, shall be liable to the same penalty which is prescribed for such crime under that piece of legislation. Article 46 Each person who discloses the confidentiality of the procedures provided for under this Law by Decree in circumstances other than those permitted by law, shall be punished by either or both confinement and a fine of not less than two hundred Jordanian dinars and not more than one thousand Jordanian dinars or its equivalent in the legal currency of circulation. Article 47 Each person who violates, damages, conceals, modifies or erases judicial information evidence, shall be punished by confinement for a term of not less than one year and a fine of This document constitutes an un-official transcription/translation. DCAF cannot be held responsible for damages that may arise from its use. For official reference, please refer to the original text as published by the Palestinian Authorities. DCAF’s Assistance Programme for the Palestinian Security and Justice Sector is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office. Page 13 of 15