The Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) Order 1994

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st August 1994.

(2) In this Order “the Act” means the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 and “the principal Order” means the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) Order 1990(1).

2.  Schedule 1 to the principal Order shall be amended as follows—

(a) by the insertion, at the appropriate places in alphabetical order, of the entries for those countries and territories specified in the Schedule to this Order (including where so specified the appropriate authority for a country or territory); and

(b) by the removal of the entry relating to Czechoslovakia.

3.  The Appendix set out at the end of Schedule 3 to the principal Order (which defines the institution of proceedings for the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 38(11) of the Act as modified by Schedule 2 to the principal Order) shall be amended by the insertion, after the entry relating to Bermuda, of the following—

“British Virgin Islands

(a) when a summons or warrant is issued in respect of an offence; (b) when a person is charged with an offence after being taken into custody without a warrant; (c) when an indictment is preferred”

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council