# The European Convention on Extradition (Fiscal Offences) Order 2001, Introduction: Introductory text


EXTRADITION
Made 11th April 2001
Laid before Parliament 25th April 2001
Coming into force 16th May 2001
At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 11th day of April 2001
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas the European Convention on Extradition (“the Convention”), opened for signature by Members of the Council of Europe on 13th December 1957, entered into force for the United Kingdom on 14th May 1991:
And whereas the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention (“the Protocol”), the terms of which are set out in Schedule 1 to this Order, was opened for signature, by Members of the Council of Europe which have signed the Convention (“Convention States”), on 17th March 1978:
And whereas, on 6th June 1994, the United Kingdom became a party to the Protocol, accepted Chapter II of the Protocol and made the reservation set out in Schedule 2 to this Order:
And whereas the Convention States listed in Schedule 3 to this Order are parties to the Protocol which have accepted Chapter II thereof, and those States have made certain reservations and declarations, the terms of which are set out in Schedule 4 to this Order:
And whereas the Protocol provides for denunciation by means of a notification by a party to it, such denunciation to take effect six months after the date when the Secretary General of the Council of Europe receives such notification:
And whereas the reservations, notifications and declarations made by the United Kingdom and by the Convention States listed in Schedule 3 to this Order, which are set out in Schedules 2 and 4 respectively to the European Convention on Extradition Order 2001, are also applicable to the Protocol:
And whereas the Protocol, as it relates to the United Kingdom, is in conformity with the provisions of the Extradition Act 1989 (“the 1989 Act”), in particular with the restrictions on return contained in Part II of that Act:
And whereas section 4(1) of the 1989 Act provides that where general extradition arrangements have been made, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council reciting or embodying their terms, direct that the 1989 Act, so far as it relates to extradition procedures under Part III of that Act, shall apply as between the United Kingdom and the foreign State, or any foreign State, with which they have been made, subject to the limitations, restrictions, exceptions and qualifications in the Order:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 4(1) of the Extradition Act 1989 or otherwise in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

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