Transitional provisions
4. The coming into force of paragraph 19(4) of Schedule 26 to the Act is no effect in relation to long-term prisoners serving a sentence for one or more offences committed before 4th April 2005 by virtue of having been transferred to the United Kingdom pursuant to a warrant under section 1 of the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984 where the warrant was issued prior to the commencement of section 26 of the Act.