The Extradition (Safety of Maritime Navigation) (Amendment) Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 1244

EXTRADITION

The Extradition (Safety of Maritime Navigation) (Amendment) Order 2003

Made

8th May 2003

Laid before Parliament

20th May 2003

Coming into force

22nd May 2003

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 8th day of May 2003

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 4 and 37(3) of the Extradition Act 1989(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 Extradition (Safety of Maritime Navigation) (Amendment) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 22nd May 2003.

(2) In this Order “the 1997 Order” means the Extradition (Safety of Maritime Navigation) Order 1997(2).

2.—(1) Part I of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Order (foreign States which are parties to the Convention and in relation to which Orders in Council under section 2 of the Extradition Act 1870(3) are in force) and Part II of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Order (foreign States which are parties to the Protocol and in relation to which Orders in Council under section 2 of the Extradition Act 1870 are in force) are amended as follows.

(2) The entry in respect of Romania is omitted.

(3) There is inserted, at the appropriate place in alphabetical order, the following entries:—

“Bolivia	22 February 1892	1898/1065”;
“Cuba	3 October 1904	1905/558”;
“El Salvador	23 June 1881	16 December 1882”;
“Monaco	17 December 1891	8 May 1892”;
“Panama	25 August 1906	1907/648”;
“Peru	26 January 1904	1907/383”;
“Uruguay	26 March 1884	5 March 1885”.

3.—(1) Part IA of Schedule 3 to the 1997 Order (foreign States which are parties to the Convention and with which no extradition treaties are in force) is amended as follows.

(2) The entry in respect of Ukraine is omitted.

(3) There is inserted, at the appropriate place in alphabetical order, the following entries:—

• “Algeria”;

• “Belarus”;

• “Cape Verde”;

• “Gambia”;

• “Japan”;

• “Libyan Arab Jamahiriya”;

• “Mali”;

• “Micronesia, Federated States of”;

• “Morocco”;

• “Palau”;

• “Sudan”;

• “Tunisia”;

• “Turkmenistan”;

• “Uzbekistan”;

• “Vietnam”;

• “Yemen”.

4.—(1) Part IB of Schedule 3 to the 1997 Order (foreign States which are parties to the Protocol and with which no extradition treaties are in force) is amended as follows.

(2) The entry in respect of Ukraine is omitted.

(3) There is inserted, at the appropriate place in alphabetical order, the following entries:—

• “Belarus”;

• “Cape Verde”;

• “Gambia”;

• “Japan”;

• “Libyan Arab Jamahiriya”;

• “Mali”;

• “Morocco”;

• “Palau”;

• “Sudan”;

• “Tunisia”;

• “Turkmenistan”;

• “Uzbekistan”;

• “Vietnam”;

• “Yemen”.

A. K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Extradition (Safety of Maritime Navigation) Order 1997 (“the 1997 Order”) which made provision in respect of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (“the Convention”) which is referred to in section 22(2)(j) of the Extradition Act 1989 (“the 1989 Act”) as inserted by Schedule 3 to the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990. The 1997 Order also made provision in respect of the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf (“the Protocol”) which is referred to in section 22(2)(k) of the 1989 Act, as so inserted.

The change made by article 2(2) is to remove Romania, with which general extradition arrangements have been made, from Parts I and II to Schedule 2 to the 1997 Order. Article 2(3) adds to Parts I and II of that Schedule those States which have become parties to the Convention and the Protocol in relation to which Orders in Council under section 2 of the Extradition Act 1870 are in force. The change made by articles 3(2) and 4(2) removes Ukraine, with which general extradition arrangements have now been made, respectively from Parts IA and IB of Schedule 3 to the 1997 Order. Articles 3(3) and 4(3) amend Parts IA and IB to that Schedule by adding those States which have now become parties to the Convention and the Protocol respectively and with which no extradition treaties are in force.

(1)

1989 c. 33; the powers in section 4 are extended by section 22(3).

(2)

S.I. 1997/1766.

(3)

1870 c. 52; the Act was repealed by the Extradition Act 1989 but with the savings in section 37 of the 1989 Act.