LegalizeThe Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1993
Made: 16th December 1993
Laid before Parliament: 10th January 1994
Coming into force: 1st February 1994
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 16th day of December 1993 Present, The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 26 of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 19861, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
1
- (1) This Order may be cited as the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st February 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 19902.
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 the removal of the entry specifying the appropriate authority for Switzerland; and
- (b) by the insertion opposite the entry for Switzerland, of the following entry—
“Office federal de la police”.
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 Montserrat, of the following—
| Netherlands | a when a pre–trial financial investigation has been initiated; b when the provisional measure has been ordered by an investigating magistrate; c when a public prosecutor has requested a pre–trial criminal investigation by an investigating magistrate to be instituted; d when a public prosecutor has laid an indictment |
|---|---|
SCHEDULE — DESIGNATED COUNTRIES
| Designated country | Appropriate authority |
|---|---|
| Armenia | |
| Azerbaijan | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| Brunei | |
| Colombia | the Fiscalia General de la Nacion |
| Croatia | |
| Dominica | |
| Dominican Republic | |
| El Salvador | |
| Macedonia | |
| Mauritania | |
| Netherlands | Afdeling Internationale Rechtshulp |
| Slovakia | |
| Zambia | |
| Zimbabwe |
Signed
N. H. Nicholls — Clerk of the Privy Council
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1199) (“the principal Order”) which provides that, subject to certain modifications, the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 applies to an order made by a court in a designated country or territory for the purpose of recovering payments or other rewards received in connection with drug trafficking or their value, and to proceedings which have been or are to be instituted in a designated country or territory and may result in such an order being made there.
This Order makes amendments in respect of the countries and territories to which the principal Order applies.
Footnotes
1986 c. 32; relevant amendments are made by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 41), section 70 and Schedule 2, the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33), section 103 and Schedule 5, the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 (c. 4), section 25(1) and Schedule 8, the Criminal Justice (International Co– operation) Act 1990 (c. 5) section 31(1) and (2) and Schedule 4 and the Criminal Justice Act 1993 (c. 36), section 21.
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