{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-criminal-court-act-2001-overseas-territories-order-2009/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-criminal-court-act-2001-overseas-territories-order-2009/schedule-1/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1738",
  "legislation_title": "The International Criminal Court Act 2001 (Overseas Territories) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-criminal-court-act-2001-overseas-territories-order-2009",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Request for provisional arrest",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the Governor receives from the ICC a request for the provisional arrest of a person alleged to have committed an ICC crime or to have been convicted by the ICC.\n(2) If it appears to the Governor that application for a warrant should be made in the Territory–\n(a) he shall transmit the request to a constable and direct the constable to apply for a warrant for the arrest of that person, and\n(b) on an application by a constable stating on oath that he has reason to believe–\n(i) that a request has been made on grounds of urgency by the ICC for the arrest of a person, and\n(ii) that the person is in, or on his way to, the Territory,\nan appropriate judicial officer shall issue a warrant for the arrest of that person.\n(3) Omitted\n(4) Where an appropriate judicial officer issues a warrant under this section, he shall notify the Governor that he has done so.\n(5) In this Part a warrant issued under this section is referred to as a “provisional warrant”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1738/schedule/1/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:09:47.646552+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}