The Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) (Amendment) Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 255

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

CRIMINAL LAW, NORTHERN IRELAND

The Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) (Amendment) Order 2002

Made

12th February 2002

Laid before Parliament

22nd February 2002

Coming into force

18th March 2002

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 12th day of February 2002

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 9 of the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990(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 Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) (Amendment) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 18th March 2002.

(2) In this Order “the principal Orders” means—

(a) (in relation to England and Wales) the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) Order 1991(2); and

(b) (in relation to Northern Ireland) the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(3).

2.  There shall be inserted in Schedule 2 to each of the principal Orders (designation of countries and territories for drug trafficking offences), at the appropriate places in alphabetical order, the entries for those countries and territories specified in Schedule 1 to this Order.

3.  There shall be inserted in Schedule 3 to each of the principal Orders (designation of countries and territories for other offences), at the appropriate place in alphabetical order, the entries for those countries and territories specified in Schedule 2 to this Order.

A. K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1

Designated country	Appropriate authority
Albania
Bhutan
Djibouti
Estonia
Kuwait
Lithuania
The Maldives
Mauritius

Article 3

SCHEDULE 2

Designated country or territory	Appropriate authority
The Bailiwick of Guernsey	Her Majesty’s Attorney General for the Bailiwick of Guernsey
The Bailiwick of Jersey	Her Majesty’s Attorney General for the Bailiwick of Jersey
Liechtenstein
Russia
Slovakia

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1463) and the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1464) (“the 1991 Orders”). It adds the countries, listed in Schedule 1 to this Order, to the list, in Schedule 2 to the 1991 Orders, of countries and territories designated for drug trafficking offences.

This Order also adds the countries listed in Schedule 2 to this Order to the list, in Schedule 3 to the 1991 Orders, of countries and territories designated for other offences.

(1)

1990 c. 5; section 9 was amended by section 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 1993 (c. 36), by section 14 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 1995 (c. 11) and by section 5 of, and paragraph 76 of Schedule 4 to, the Criminal Procedure (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 40).

(2)

S.I. 1991/1463, amended by S.I. 1992/1721, 1993/1791, 1993/3148, 1994/1640, 1996/2878, 1997/1317, 1997/2977 and 2001/957.

(3)

S.I. 1991/1464, amended by S.I. 1992/1721, 1993/1791, 1993/3148, 1994/1640, 1996/2878, 1997/1317, 1997/2977 and 2001/957.