The Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 2845

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

CRIMINAL LAW, NORTHERN IRELAND

The Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2002

Made

20th November 2002

Laid before Parliament

2nd December 2002

Coming into force

23rd December 2002

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 20th day of November 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) (No. 2) Order 2002, and shall come into force on 23rd December 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 place in alphabetical order, the entry for the territory 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 the countries specified in Schedule 2 to this Order.

A. K. Galloway,

Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE 1

Designated territory	Appropriate authority
The Bailiwick of Guernsey	Her Majesty’s Attorney General for the Bailiwick of Guernsey

SCHEDULE 2

Designated Country	Appropriate authority
Albania
Luxembourg
Moldova
Monaco
Romania

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 and the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (“the 1991 Orders”). It adds the territory 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, as amended by S.I. 1992/1721, 1993/1791, 1993/3148, 1994/1640, 1996/2878, 1997/1317, 1997/2977, 2001/957 and 2002/255.

(3)

S.I. 1991/1464, as amended by S.I. 1992/1721, 1993/1791, 1993/3148, 1994/1640, 1996/2878, 1997/1317, 1997/2977, 2001/957 and 2002/255.