Part VIU.K. Miscellaneous and Supplementary

Supplementary EvidenceU.K.

38 Short title, commencement and extent.U.K.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Extradition Act 1989.

(2)The provisions of this Act other than any provision to which subsection (3) below applies shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which it is passed.

(3)The provisions of this Act to which this subsection applies are sections 7(3), 10(3)and 14(2) and (3) above, this section and paragraph 9(2) of Schedule 1.

(4)Section 136(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (which provided that torture should be deemed to be included in the list of extradition crimes contained in Schedule 1 to the Extradition Act 1870) and paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to that Act (which provided that any offence under the M1Company Securities (Insider Dealing) Act 1985 and offences under section 24 of the M2Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 should be deemed to be so included) shall come into force immediately before this Act comes into force.

(5)This Act extends to Northern Ireland.

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