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The Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) Order 1993

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4.—(1) In the modification of section 38(11) of the Act (which defines when proceedings in a designated country are instituted) which is specified in paragraph 23(e) of Schedule 2 to the principal Order, there shall be inserted after paragraph (a) of the said section 38(11) the following—

“(aa)where no steps have been specified in relation thereto as mentioned in paragraph (a) above, the defendant has been notified in writing in accordance with the laws of the designated country that the competent authorities of that country have begun proceedings against him in respect of an offence; or”,

and section 38(11) of the Act as set out in Schedule 3 to the principal Order shall be modified accordingly.

(2) In article 5(1) of the principal Order (evidence in relation to the proceedings and orders in a designated country) there shall be inserted after sub-paragraph (a) the following sub-paragraph—

“(aa)in a case to which paragraph (aa) of section 38(11) of the Act, as modified by Schedule 2 to this Order, applies, that the defendant has been notified as specified in that paragraph;”.

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