The Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking (Designated Countries and Territories) (Scotland) Amendment Order 1994

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking (Designated Countries and Territories) (Scotland) Amendment Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st August 1994.

(2) In this Order “the Act” means the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1987 and “the principal Order” means the Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking (Designated Countries and Territories) (Scotland) Order 1991(1).

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

(a) by inserting, in the appropriate alphabetical position, 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 deleting the entry relating to Czechoslovakia.

3.  The Appendix set out at the end of Schedule 3 to the principal Order (which defines when proceedings are instituted for the purposes of section 47(5)(a)(i) of the Act as modified by article 3(2) of and Schedule 2 to the principal Order) shall be amended by inserting, after the entry relating to Bermuda, 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