The Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) (Scotland) Amendment Order 1992

Made: 15th July 1992

Coming into force: 20th July 1992

At the Court at Buckingham Palace the 15th day of July 1992 Present, The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 9 of the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990[^f00001], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) (Scotland) Amendment Order 1992 and shall come into force on 20th July 1992.

• (2) In this Order “the principal Order” means the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (Enforcement of Overseas Forfeiture Orders) (Scotland) Order 1991[^f00002].

• (3) This Order extends to Scotland only.

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Schedule 1 to the principal Order (which defines the institution of proceedings for the purposes of article 2(3)(a) of that Order) shall be amended as follows:—

• (a) after the entry relating to Anguilla, there shall be inserted the following:—

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

• (c) after the entry relating to Guernsey, there shall be inserted the following:—

; and

• (d) after the entry relating to the United States of America, there shall be inserted the following:—

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Schedule 2 to the principal Order shall be amended by inserting, in the appropriate alphabetical position, the entries for those countries and territories specified in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE

Signed

G. I. de Deney — Clerk of the Privy Council

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) (Scotland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1468) which provides for the enforcement in Scotland of orders made by a court in a designated country or territory for the forfeiture and destruction or other disposal of property used in connection with the commission of a drug trafficking offence. The powers in the 1991 Order also apply to proceedings which have been or are to be instituted in a designated country or territory and may result in such an order being made there.

Article 3 amends the list of designated countries in the 1991 Order to include Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, Burma, Cameroon, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Greece, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Ivory Coast, Monaco, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Syria, Uruguay and Venezuela. Article 2 amends Schedule 1 to the 1991 Order to specify when, for the purposes of Article 2(3)(a) of that Order, proceedings are instituted in, respectively, Argentina, Germany, Guyana and Uruguay.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1990 c. 5.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1991/1468.