Extradition Act 2003

• (5) The Secretary of State may revise the whole or any part of a code issued under this section and issue the code as revised; and subsections (2) to (4) apply to such a revised code as they apply to the original code.

• (6) A failure by an authorised officer to comply with a provision of a code issued under this section does not of itself make the authorised officer liable to criminal or civil proceedings.

• (7) A code issued under this section is admissible in evidence in any proceedings and must be taken into account by a court in determining any question to which it appears to the court to be relevant.

• (8) If the Secretary of State publishes a draft code of practice in connection with a matter specified in subsection (1) before the date on which this section comes into force—

• (a) the draft is as effective as one published under subsection (2) on or after that date;

• (b) representations made to the Secretary of State about the draft before that date are as effective as such representations made after that date;

• (c) modifications made by the Secretary of State to the draft in the light of any such representations before that date are as effective as any such modifications made on or after that date.

189E

• (1) An “authorised officer” is—

• (a) a constable, or

• (b) a person who is of a description specified by the Secretary of State by order.

• (2) A National Crime Agency officer, prison officer, or any other person who has the powers of a constable (but is not a constable)—

• (a) does not have the extradition transit powers by virtue of having the powers of a constable; and

• (b) accordingly, has the extradition transit powers only if the person is of a description specified under subsection (1)(b).

• (3) These expressions have the meanings given—

• “extradition transit powers” means the powers under—section 189A (except the power to issue transit certificates), andsection 189B;

• “foreign territory” means a territory outside the United Kingdom;

• “non-UK extradition” means extradition from one foreign territory to another foreign territory;

• “relevant search power” means a power of search under—section 189A(2)(c) or (d), orsection 189B(2)(b) or (c);

• “relevant UK authority” means—the National Crime Agency (in the case of a non-UK extradition to a category 1 territory), orthe Secretary of State (in any other case).

• (4) A reference to the transit of a person through the United Kingdom is a reference to the person arriving in, being in, and departing from the United Kingdom (whether or not the person travels within the United Kingdom between arrival and departure).

• (5) This section applies for the purposes of section 189A to 189D (and this section).

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