Valid from 21/07/2014

PART 12 U.K. Extradition

Amendments of the Extradition Act 2003 U.K.

170 Electronic transmission of European arrest warrant etc U.K.

In section 204 of the Extradition Act 2003 (warrant issued by category 1 territory: transmission by electronic means), in subsection (5)—

(a) for “subsection (1), a” there is substituted “subsection (1)—

(a) a”;

(b) at the end there is inserted—

“(b) information contained in the warrant is treated as being received by the designated authority in a form in which it is intelligible if the authority receives—

(i) a summary of that information in English, and

(ii) the text of the warrant itself,

in a form in which it is legible.”