The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) Order 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 960

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) Order 2001

Made

14th March 2001

Laid before Parliament

26th March 2001

Coming into force

17th April 2001

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of March 2001

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 96 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 17th April 2001.

(2) This Order extends to England and Wales only.

(3) In this Order “the principal Order” means the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Designated Countries and Territories) Order 1991(2).

2.  Schedule 1 to the principal Order (designated countries and territories) shall be amended as follows—

(a) by the insertion, at the appropriate places in alphabetical order, of the entries for the countries and territory specified in the Schedule to this Order;

(b) by the insertion, opposite the entry for Ireland, of the following entry—“The Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform”.

A. K. Galloway,

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE DESIGNATED COUNTRIES AND TERRITORY

Designated country or territory

• Andorra

• Croatia

• Estonia

• Greece

• Hungary

• Latvia

• Malta

• Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of

• The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba

• Poland

• San Marino

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Designated Countries and Territories) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/2873) (“the principal Order”). It adds the countries and territory listed in the Schedule to this Order to the list of countries and territories in Schedule 1 to the principal Order, and provides that the “appropriate authority” (for the purposes of certifying certain matters under the principal Order) in respect of Ireland shall be the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.

(1)

1988 c. 33; section 96 was amended by section 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 1993 (c. 36).

(2)

S.I. 1991/2873, as amended by S.I. 1993/1790, 1993/3147, 1994/1639, 1996/278, 1996/2877, 1997/1316, 1997/2976 and 1999/282.