The European Convention on Extradition Order 1990

1.  This Order may be cited as the European Convention on Extradition Order 1990, and shall come into force on the date, to be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes, on which the European Convention on Extradition enters into force for the United Kingdom.

2.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the 1989 Act, so far as it relates to extradition procedures under Part III of that Act, shall apply as between the United Kingdom and any foreign State, party to the Convention, which is listed in Part I of Schedule 2 to this Order; and any such State is in this Order referred to as a “Convention State”.

(2) For this purpose, Cyprus shall be treated as a foreign State.

3.  Where an extradition request is made by a Convention State in respect of a person accused of an offence, it shall not be necessary

(a) for that State to furnish the court of committal with evidence sufficient to warrant the trial of that person if the extradition crime had taken place within the jurisdiction of the court; or

(b) for the court of committal to be satisfied that there is evidence sufficient to warrant the trial of that person.

4.  The operation of this Order is limited to the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

5.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this article, the Orders listed in Schedule 5 to this Order are hereby revoked.

(2) Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph, the Orders listed in Schedule 5 to this Order shall continue to have effect

(a) for the purposes of disposing of any requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal to a Convention State in respect of which an order under paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 1 to the 1989 Act was made before this Order came into force;

(b) insofar as they relate to extradition between any territory for whose interna tional relations a Convention State is responsible, but to which the Convention does not apply, and the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or any colony.

(3) Sub-paragraph (a) of the foregoing paragraph is without prejudice to the operation of section 16(1)(e) of the Interpretation Act 1978(1).

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council