The Criminal Procedure Rules 2010

Notice of waiver

17.2.—(1) A notice given under section 14 of, or paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to, the Extradition Act 1989(1) (notice of waiver under the simplified procedure) shall be in the form set out in the Practice Direction or a form to the like effect.

(2) Such a notice shall be signed in the presence of the Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) or another District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) designated by him for the purposes of the Act, a justice of the peace or a justices’ clerk.

(3) Any such notice given by a person in custody shall be delivered to the Governor of the prison in whose custody he is.

(4) If a person on bail gives such notice he shall deliver it to, or send it by post in a registered letter or by recorded delivery service addressed to, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, c/o the Extradition Section, Home Office, 5^th Floor, Fry Building, 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF.

[Note. This rule has effect only in proceedings where the request for extradition was received by the relevant authority in the United Kingdom on or before 31st December 2003.]

(1)

1989 c. 33; section 14 was amended by section 109(1) of, and paragraph 328 of Schedule 8 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39); paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 was amended by section 109(1) of, and paragraph 329 of Schedule 8 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39).