The Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1993

• Citation: S.I. 1993/3158
• Sections: 3

Section 1

(1) This Order may be cited as the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st February 1994.

(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 entry specifying the appropriate authority for Switzerland; and

(b) by the insertion opposite the entry for Switzerland, of the following entry—

“Office federal de la police”.

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 by the insertion, after the entry relating to Montserrat, of the following—

(a) when a pre–trial financial investigation has been initiated;

(b) when the provisional measure has been ordered by an investigating magistrate;

(c) when a public prosecutor has requested a pre–trial criminal investigation by an investigating magistrate to be instituted;

(d) when a public prosecutor has laid an indictment