Explanatory note

This Order brings into force on 26th September 1989 provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 which insert in the Backing of Warrants (Republic of Ireland) Act 1965 a new section 2A concerned with appeals by way of case stated. (Sections 1 to 21 of and Schedule 1 to the Criminal Justice Act 1988 are repealed and (with the exception of that amendment of the 1965 Act) re-enacted by the Extradition Act 1989 (c. 33) which comes into force on 27th September 1989 (section 38(2)). Section 2A of the 1965 Act is saved by section 37(5) of the Extradition Act 1989.)