PART 12Extradition

Amendments of the Extradition Act 2003

170Electronic transmission of European arrest warrant etc

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.”