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Statutory Instruments

1995 No. 1620

EXTRADITION

The Extradition (Drug Trafficking) (Falkland Islands and Gibraltar) Order 1995

Made

28th June 1995

Laid before Parliament

10th July 1995

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day of June 1995

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by sections 2 and 21 of the Extradition Act 1870(1) and sections 4(1), 22(3), 30(1) and 37(3) of the Extradition Act 1989(2) or otherwise in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Extradition (Drug Trafficking) (Falkland Islands and Gibraltar) Order 1995. It shall come into force for the purposes of Article 4 on the date, to be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes, on which the Convention on the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances(3) (“the Convention”) enters into force in respect of the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar, and for all other purposes on 11th July 1995.

2.  Article 4 of the Extradition (Drug Trafficking) Order 1991 (“the 1991 Order”)(4) shall be amended by substituting the words “said Schedule 4” for the words “said Schedule 2”.

3.  Schedule 4 to the 1991 Order (foreign States which are parties to the Convention and with which extradition treaties are in force in relation to extradition between those States and one or more of the Territories specified in Schedule 5 to that Order) shall be amended by adding the following entries—

StateDate of Extradition TreatyDate of entry into force of ConventionOrder in Council
Croatia6th December 190026th July 19931901/586
Norway26th June 187312th February 199530th September 1873
Slovenia6th December 19006th July 19921901/586

4.  Schedule 5 to the 1991 Order (Territories to which that Order extends) shall be amended by adding “Falkland Islands” and “Gibraltar” to the list of Territories therein.

N.H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order extends to the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar the operation of the Extradition (Drug Trafficking) Order 1991, updates the list of States in Schedule 4 to that Order and corrects a reference in Article 4 thereof.

(1)

1870 c. 52; the Act was repealed by the Extradition Act 1989 with the savings mentioned in section 37 of that Act.

(3)

Cm. 804.

(4)

S.I. 1991/1701 (amended by S.I. 1994/2794).