The Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) Order 1993

• Citation: S.I. 1993/1792
• Sections: 4

Section 1

(1) This Order may be cited as the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) Order 1993 and shall come into force on the tenth day after the day on which it is made.

(2) In this Order “ the Act ” means the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 and “the principal Order ” means the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) Order 1990 .

Section 2

Schedule 1 to the principal Order shall be amended as follows—

(a) by the insertion at the appropriate places in alphabetical order of the entries for those countries and territories specified in the Schedule to this Order (including where so specified the appropriate authority for a country or territory) and the removal of the entries for Hungary and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (including the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic); and

(b) by the insertion opposite the entry for Ecuador, of the following entry: “Consejo Nacional de Control de Sustancias Estupefacientes y Psicotropicas ( CONSEP )”.

Section 3

The Appendix set out at the end of Schedule 3 to the principal Order (which defines the institution of proceedings for the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 38(11) of the Act as modified by Schedule 2 to the principal Order) shall be amended as follows—

(a) after the entry relating to the Cayman Islands, there shall be inserted the following—

(b) after the entry relating to Hong Kong, there shall be inserted the following—

(a) when information relating to commission of any crime is received by any law enforcement agency empowered to investigate such crime under the law for the time being in force and laid before a court of law;

(b) when any allegation is made orally or in writing to a court of law that a person has committed an offence;

(c) when a person is charged with an offence;

(d) when any investigation or inquiry into the commission of any offence is directed by a court of law

(c) after the entry relating to Montserrat, there shall be inserted the following—

(d) after the entry relating to Saudi Arabia, there shall be inserted the following—

(a) when a summons is issued in respect of an offence;

(b) when a person is charged with an offence;

(c) when a bill of indictment is preferred

Section 4

(1) In the modification of section 38(11) of the Act (which defines when proceedings in a designated country are instituted) which is specified in paragraph 23(e) of Schedule 2 to the principal Order, there shall be inserted after paragraph (a) of the said section 38(11) the following—

(aa) where no steps have been specified in relation thereto as mentioned in paragraph (a) above, the defendant has been notified in writing in accordance with the laws of the designated country that the competent authorities of that country have begun proceedings against him in respect of an offence; or

and section 38(11) of the Act as set out in Schedule 3 to the principal Order shall be modified accordingly.

(2) In article 5(1) of the principal Order (evidence in relation to the proceedings and orders in a designated country) there shall be inserted after sub-paragraph (a) the following sub-paragraph—

(aa) in a case to which paragraph (aa) of section 38(11) of the Act, as modified by Schedule 2 to this Order, applies, that the defendant has been notified as specified in that paragraph;