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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 956

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (Designated Countries and Territories) (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 39 of the Drug Trafficking Act 1994[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 Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 17th April 2001.

    (2) In this Order "the 1996 Order" means the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (Designated Countries and Territories) Order 1996[2].

    (3) This Order extends to England and Wales only.

     2. Schedule 1 to the 1996 Order (countries and territories designated for the purposes of sections 39 and 40 of the Drug Trafficking Act 1994) shall be amended as follows - 

     3. The Appendix to the 1996 Order, which describes when proceedings are instituted in a designated country, 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

".



A. K. Galloway,
Clerk of the Privy Council


SCHEDULE
Article 2


DESIGNATED COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES


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     
Trinidad and Tobago The Attorney General or a person designated by him
Vietnam     


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order adds the countries and territories listed in the Schedule to this Order to the list of designated countries and territories in Schedule 1 to the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (Designated Countries and Territories) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/2880) ("the 1996 Order").

This Order also inserts, in Schedule 1 to the 1996 Order, entries relating to the "appropriate authority" (for the purposes of certifying certain matters under the 1996 Order) in respect of certain countries. It also inserts, in the Appendix to the 1996 Order, an indication of when proceedings are to be regarded as being instituted in Trinidad and Tobago.

Notes:

 [1] 1994 c. 37.back

[2] S.I. 1996/2880, amended by S.I. 1997/1318 and 1997/2980.back


ISBN 0 11 029045 3


 © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 26 March 2001

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