BAILII is celebrating 24 years of free online access to the law! Would you consider making a contribution?

No donation is too small. If every visitor before 31 December gives just £1, it will have a significant impact on BAILII's ability to continue providing free access to the law.
Thank you very much for your support!



BAILII [Home] [Databases] [World Law] [Multidatabase Search] [Help] [Feedback]

United Kingdom Statutory Instruments
You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Statutory Instruments >> The Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 No. 957
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/legis/num_reg/2001/20010957.html

[New search] [Help]

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 957

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

CRIMINAL LAW, NORTHERN IRELAND

The Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) (Amendment) Order 2001

  Made 14th March 2001 
  Laid before Parliament 26th March 2001 
  Coming into force 17th April 2001 

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of March 2001

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 9 of the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990[1], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows: - 

     1.  - (1) This Order may be cited as the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 17th April 2001.

    (2) In this Order "the principal Order" means - 

     2. Schedule 1 to the principal Order (which indicates the point at which proceedings are instituted for the purposes of article 2(5) of that Order) shall be amended by the insertion, after the entry for Thailand, of the following - 

Trinidad and Tobago " (a) when an information or complaint is laid before the magistrate;

(b) when a person is charged with an offence;

(c) when a bill of indictment is preferred;

(d) when a warrant of arrest is executed against a person".

"


     3. Schedule 2 to the principal Order (designation of countries and territories for drug trafficking offences) shall be amended as follows - 

     4. Schedule 3 to the principal Order (designation of countries and territories for other offences) shall be amended as follows - 


A. K. Galloway,
Clerk of the Privy Council


SCHEDULE 1
Article 3


DESIGNATED COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES - DRUG TRAFFICKING OFFENCES


Designated country or territory Appropriate authority
Andorra     
Comoros     
Estonia     
Georgia     
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region The Department of Justice
Iceland     
Indonesia     
Korea, Republic of     
Lebanon     
Libya     
Mozambique     
The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba     
New Zealand     
Philippines     
San Marino     
Singapore     
Vietnam     



SCHEDULE 2
Article 4


DESIGNATED COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES - OTHER OFFENCES


Designated country or territory Appropriate authority
Andorra     
Belgium     
Croatia     
Estonia     
Federal Republic of Germany     
Greece     
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region The Department of Justice
Hungary     
Iceland     
Latvia     
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of     
Malta     
The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba     
Poland     
Portugal     
San Marino     
Slovenia     
Spain     
Trinidad and Tobago The Attorney General or a person designated by him.


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order amends the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1463) and the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1464) ("the 1991 Orders"). It adds the countries and territories listed in Schedule 1 to this Order to the list, in Schedule 2 to the 1991 Orders, of countries and territories designated for drug trafficking offences.

This Order also adds the countries and territories listed in Schedule 2 to this Order to the list, in Schedule 3 to the 1991 Orders, of countries and territories designated for other offences.

This Order also inserts, in Schedule 1 to the 1991 Orders, an indication of when proceedings are to be regarded as being instituted in Trinidad and Tobago. It also inserts, in Schedule 2 and 3 to the 1991 Orders, entries relating to the "appropriate authority" (for the purposes of certifying certain matters under the 1991 Orders) in respect of certain countries previously designated for (in the case of Schedule 2) drug trafficking offences and, (in the case of Schedule 3) other offences.

Notes:

 [1] 1990 c. 5; section 9 was amended by section 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 1993 (c. 36) and by section 14 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 1995 (c. 11).back

[2] S.I. 1991/1463, amended by S.I. 1992/1721, 1993/1791, 1993/3148, 1994/1640, 1996/2878, 1997/1317 and 1997/2977.back

[3] S.I. 1991/1464, amended by S.I. 1992/1721, 1993/1791, 1993/3148, 1994/1640, 1996/2878, 1997/1317 and 1997/2977.back


ISBN 0 11 029055 0


 © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 26 March 2001

BAILII: Copyright Policy | Disclaimers | Privacy Policy | Feedback | Donate to BAILII
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/legis/num_reg/2001/20010957.html