Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984

2 Transfer out of the United Kingdom. U.K.

(1) The effect of a warrant providing for the transfer of the prisoner out of the United Kingdom shall be to authorise—

(a) the taking of the prisoner to any place in any part of the United Kingdom and his delivery, at a place of departure from the United Kingdom, into the custody of a person representing the appropriate authority of the country or territory to which the prisoner is to be transferred; and

(b) the removal of the prisoner by the person to whom he is so delivered to a place outside the United Kingdom.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) to (5) below, the order by virtue of which the prisoner is required to be detained at the time such a warrant is issued in respect of him shall continue to have effect after his removal from the United Kingdom so as to apply to him if he is again in the United Kingdom at any time when under that order he is to be, or may be, detained.

(3) If, at any time after the removal of the prisoner from the United Kingdom, it appears to the Secretary of State appropriate to do so in order that effect may be given to the international arrangements in accordance with which the prisoner was transferred, the Secretary of State may give a direction varying the order referred to in subsection (2) above or providing for that order to cease to have effect.

(4) The power by direction under subsection (3) above to vary the order referred to in subsection (2) above shall include power by direction—

(a) to provide for how any period during which the prisoner is, by virtue of a warrant under this Act, out of the part of the United Kingdom in which that order has effect is to be treated for the purposes of that order; and

(b) to provide for the prisoner to be treated as having been—

(i) released on licence under section 60 or 61 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 (release on licence of, respectively, persons serving determinate sentences and persons sentenced to imprisonment for life etc.); or

(ii) released on licence under section 206(2) of the M1 Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (release on licence of children convicted on indictment) or released under section 58A(3) of the M2 Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937 (release of children committed for residential training); or

(iii) released on licence under section 23 of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 or discharged on licence under section 73 of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 (release and discharge on licence of, respectively, persons serving imprisonment for life and young persons in detention for grave crimes); or

(iv) for the purposes of Part II of the M3 Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 (conviction within certain period after discharge), discharged from prison or a young offenders centre in pursuance of rules made under section 13 of the said Act of 1953.

(5) Except in relation to any period during which a restriction order is in force in respect of the prisoner, subsection (2) above shall not apply in relation to a hospital order; and, accordingly, a hospital order shall cease to have effect in relation to the prisoner—

(a) at the time of his removal from the United Kingdom if no restriction order is in force in respect of him at that time; and

(b) if at that time a restriction order is in force in respect of him, as soon after his removal as the restriction order ceases to have effect.

(6) In subsection (5) above—

• “hospital order” means an order made under section 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983, section 175 or 376 of the M4 Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 or [F1 Article 44 of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986]or any order or direction made under another enactment but having the same effect as an order made under one of [F1 those provisions]; and

• “restriction order” means an order made under section 41 of the said Act of 1983, section 178 or 379 of the said Act of 1975 or [F1 Article 47 of the said Order of 1986] or any order or direction made under another enactment but having the same effect as an order made under one of [F1 those provisions].

(7) References in this section to the order by virtue of which the prisoner is required to be detained at the time a warrant under this Act is issued in respect of him include references to any order by virtue of which he is required to be detained after the order by virtue of which he is required to be detained at that time ceases to have effect.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by S.I. 1986/596, art. 9

Marginal Citations

M1 1975 c. 21.

M2 1937 c. 37.

M3 S.I. 1976/226 (N.I. 4.).

M4 1975 c. 21.