S.I. No. 659 of 2007

TRANSFER OF EXECUTION OF SENTENCES ACT 2005 (DESIGNATED COUNTRIES) ORDER 2007

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

�Iris Oifigi�il� of 2nd October, 2007.

I, DERMOT AHERN, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 5 of the Transfer of Execution of Sentences Act 2005 (No. 28 of 2005), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Transfer of Execution of Sentences Act 2005 (Designated Countries) Order 2007.

2. The countries specified in the Schedule to this Order are designated for the purposes of the Transfer of Execution of Sentences Act 2005 (No. 28 of 2005).

SCHEDULE

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

27 September 2007

DERMOT AHERN.

Minister for Foreign Affairs.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(The note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The effect of this Order is to designate, for the purposes of the enabling Act, those countries that have ratified, accepted, approved or acceded to the Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons done at Strasbourg on 18 December 1997, or have ratified or acceded to the Schengen Convention, or have given effect under its laws to the provisions of Chapter 5 of Title III of the Schengen Convention or Article 2 of the Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons.