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4.—(1) Where the Secretary of State receives from the Mechanism a warrant of arrest issued by the Mechanism (including such a warrant issued or received before the commencement of this Order), the Secretary of State must transmit the warrant to an appropriate judicial officer.
(2) If the Secretary of State considers that the warrant of arrest should be endorsed by an appropriate judicial officer in Scotland, he must transmit the warrant and the documents accompanying it to the Lord Advocate who must transmit them to an appropriate judicial officer.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the appropriate judicial officer must endorse the warrant for execution in any part of the United Kingdom.
(4) The appropriate judicial officer must not endorse a warrant for the arrest of a person (“P”) convicted by the Mechanism unless the purpose of the arrest is to enable P—
(a)to be brought before the Mechanism; or
(b)to be taken to a place where P is to undergo imprisonment under a sentence of the Mechanism.
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