Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022

Extradition Act 2003 U.K.

2 (1) The Extradition Act 2003 is amended as follows.

(2) In section 206A—

(a) in the heading, omit “certain”;

(b) in subsection (1)—

(i) in paragraph (a), omit the words from “other” to “56,”;

(ii) in paragraph (b), omit the words from “, other” to the end;

(c) in subsection (2)—

(i) for the words from “the person” to “during the hearing,” substitute “it is in the interests of justice to do so,”;

(ii) omit “at any time before the hearing”;

(d) for subsection (3) substitute—

“(3) A live link direction is a direction requiring a person to take part in the hearing (in whatever capacity) through a live link.”;

(e) omit subsection (5);

(f) for subsection (6) substitute—

“(6) A person who takes part in the hearing through a live link is to be treated as present in court for the purposes of the hearing.”

(3) In section 206C—

(a) omit subsections (4) and (5);

(b) in subsection (6)—

(i) in the opening words, for “, while absent from the place where the hearing is being held,” substitute “(P)”;

(ii) in paragraph (a), for the words from “the appropriate” to the end substitute “all other persons taking part in the hearing who are not in the same location as P, and”;

(iii) in paragraph (b), for the words from “the judge” to the end substitute “all other persons taking part in the hearing who are not in the same location as P.”;

(iv) omit the words after paragraph (b);

(c) after subsection (6) insert—

“(7) For the purposes of subsection (6) the following matters are to be disregarded—

(a) the extent (if any) to which a person is unable to see or hear by reason of any impairment of eyesight or hearing;

(b) the effect of any direction or order which provides for one person taking part in a hearing to be prevented by means of a screen or other arrangement from seeing another person taking part in the hearing.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 20 para. 2 in force at 28.6.2022, see s. 208(5)(y)