{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022/schedule-20/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/32",
  "legislation_title": "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/20/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Extradition Act 2003",
  "text": "(1) The Extradition Act 2003 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 206A—\n(a) in the heading, omit “certain”;\n(b) in subsection (1)—\n(i) in paragraph (a), omit the words from “other” to “56,”;\n(ii) in paragraph (b), omit the words from “, other” to the end;\n(c) in subsection (2)—\n(i) for the words from “the person” to “during the hearing,” substitute “it is in the interests of justice to do so,”;\n(ii) omit “at any time before the hearing”;\n(d) for subsection (3) substitute—\n“(3) A live link direction is a direction requiring a person to take part in the hearing (in whatever capacity) through a live link.”;\n(e) omit subsection (5);\n(f) for subsection (6) substitute—\n“(6) A person who takes part in the hearing through a live link is to be treated as present in court for the purposes of the hearing.”\n(3) In section 206C—\n(a) omit subsections (4) and (5);\n(b) in subsection (6)—\n(i) in the opening words, for “, while absent from the place where the hearing is being held,” substitute “(P)”;\n(ii) in paragraph (a), for the words from “the appropriate” to the end substitute “all other persons taking part in the hearing who are not in the same location as P, and”;\n(iii) in paragraph (b), for the words from “the judge” to the end substitute “all other persons taking part in the hearing who are not in the same location as P.”;\n(iv) omit the words after paragraph (b);\n(c) after subsection (6) insert—\n“(7) For the purposes of subsection (6) the following matters are to be disregarded—\n(a) the extent (if any) to which a person is unable to see or hear by reason of any impairment of eyesight or hearing;\n(b) the effect of any direction or order which provides for one person taking part in a hearing to be prevented by means of a screen or other arrangement from seeing another person taking part in the hearing.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 20 para. 2 in force at 28.6.2022, see s. 208(5)(y)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/32/schedule/20/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:35.152975+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."
}