The Brazil (Extradition) Order 1997

Whereas a Treaty was concluded on 18th July 1995 between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil for the reciprocal extradition of offenders, the terms of which are set out in the Schedule to this Order:

And whereas section 4(1) of the Extradition Act 19891 (“the 1989 Act”) provides that where general extradition arrangements have been made, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council reciting or embodying their terms, direct that the 1989 Act, so far as it relates to extradition procedures under Part III of that Act, shall apply as between the United Kingdom and the foreign State or any foreign State with which they have been made, subject to the limitations, restrictions, exceptions and qualifications in the Order: