The Extradition (Overseas Territories) Order 2002

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Extradition (Overseas Territories) Order 2002.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 16th August 2002.

2.—(1) For the purposes of extradition as between the territories listed in Schedule 1 to this Order and the United Kingdom, Ireland, Commonwealth countries and British overseas territories, the following sections of the Extradition Act 1989 (“the 1989 Act”), modified and adapted as in Schedule 2 to this Order, shall extend to the territories listed in Schedule 1 to this Order: section 1, section 2, sections 5 to 12, section 14, sections 16 and 17, sections 19, 20 and 21, section 23, section 24, section 25, sections 27 and 28, section 35 and section 36.

(2) In its extension to the British Antarctic Territory and the British Indian Ocean Territory, the 1989 Act, as so modified and adapted, shall be subject to the further modifications and adaptations set out in, respectively, Schedules 3 and 4 to this Order.

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below the Orders listed in Schedule 5 to this Order are hereby revoked.

(2) The foregoing paragraph shall not have effect in relation to any case in which a warrant of arrest, whether issued on receipt of an authority to proceed or a provisional warrant, has been issued before 16th August 2002.

(3) Without prejudice to paragraph (2) above, this Order applies to offences committed before as well as after the coming into force of this Order.

A.K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council