# The Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) Order 1994

S.I. 1994/1641 · made 22 June 1994

This Order amends the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1199)(“the principal Order”) which provides that, subject to certain modifications, the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 applies to an order made by a court in a designated country or territory for the purpose of recovering payments or other rewards received in connection with drug trafficking or their value, and 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.

Made under: Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Section 26)

## Introductory text

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made 22nd June 1994
Laid before Parliament 4th July 1994
Coming into force 1st August 1994
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 22nd day of June 1994
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 26 of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

## 1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st August 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.

## 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
(b) by the removal of the entry relating to Czechoslovakia.

## 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 Bermuda, of the following—
“
British Virgin Islands
(a) when a summons or warrant is issued in respect of an offence;
(b) when a person is charged with an offence after being taken into custody without a warrant;
(c) when an indictment is preferred
”

## Signature

N. H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council

## DESIGNATED COUNTRIES

Designated country
Appropriate authority
British Virgin Islands
The Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands
The Czech Republic
Finland
Latvia
Sudan

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1199)(“the principal Order”) which provides that, subject to certain modifications, the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 applies to an order made by a court in a designated country or territory for the purpose of recovering payments or other rewards received in connection with drug trafficking or their value, and 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.
This Order makes amendments in respect of the countries and territories to which the principal Order applies.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1641 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/drug-trafficking-offences-act-1986-designated-countries-and-territories-amendment-order-1994
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