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

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 1792

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

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

Made

20th July 1993

Coming into force

30th July 1993

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 20th day of July 1993

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 26 of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (1), 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) Order 1993 and shall come into force on the tenth day after the day on which it is made.

(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 1990 (2).

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 entries for Hungary and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (including the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic); and

(b) by the insertion opposite the entry for Ecuador, of the following entry: “Consejo Nacional de Control de Sustancias Estupefacientes y Psicotropicas (CONSEP)”.

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 as follows—

(a) after the entry relating to the Cayman Islands, there shall be inserted the following—

“Ecuador

when a writ is issued by a judge initiating criminal proceedings”;

(b) after the entry relating to Hong Kong, there shall be inserted the following—

“India	(a) when information relating to commission of any crime is received by any law enforcement agency empowered to investigate such crime under the law for the time being in force and laid before a court of law;
	(b) when any allegation is made orally or in writing to a court of law that a person has committed an offence;
	(c) when a person is charged with an offence;
	(d) when any investigation or inquiry into the commission of any offence is directed by a court of law”;

(c) after the entry relating to Montserrat, there shall be inserted the following—

“Panama

when a person has been charged with an offence”;

(d) after the entry relating to Saudi Arabia, there shall be inserted the following—

“South Africa	(a) when a summons is issued in respect of an offence;
	(b) when a person is charged with an offence;
	(c) when a bill of indictment is preferred”.

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;”.

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE

DESIGNATED COUNTRIES

Designated country	Appropriate authority
Antigua and Barbuda
Belarus
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Denmark
Fiji
Iran
Japan
Kenya
Luxembourg
Morocco
Niger
Panama	The Ministry of Government and Justice
Romania
The Russian Federation
Slovenia
South Africa	The Department of Foreign Affairs
Suriname
Ukraine

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.

As well as amendments in respect of the countries and territories to which the principal Order applies, the Order provides in article 4 for definition and certification of the institution of proceedings in a designated country.

(1)

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, and the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (c. 5), section 31(1) and (2) and Schedule 4.

(2)

S.I. 1990/1199, amended by S.I. 1991/1465 and 1992/1722.