Section 4 Temporary return.C1

A single F1warrant under section 1 may provide for the transfer of the prisoner both out of and into (or into and out of) the United Kingdom if it appears to the F2relevant Minister that the transfers are to be for the purpose of the temporary return of the prisoner either—

The provisions contained by virtue of section 3(1)(c) above in F5a warrant under section 1 issued for the purpose of the temporary return of the prisoner to a country or territory outside the British Islands may, where the prisoner is required when that warrant is issued to be detained in accordance with provisions so contained in an F6earlier warrant under section 1 or section 4A, require the prisoner to continue, after his return to the part of the United Kingdom in which the provisions contained in the earlier warrant have effect, to be detained in accordance with those earlier provisions.

A warrant F7issued under section 1 containing, with respect to provisions contained in an earlier warrant F8under section 1 or section 4A, any such requirement as is referred to in subsection (2) above, shall provide that any period during which the prisoner is out of the part of the United Kingdom in which the provisions contained in the earlier warrant have effect and is in custody is to be treated (except to such extent as may be specified in the warrant in order that effect may be given to the international arrangements in question) as a period during which the prisoner is detained under the provisions contained in the earlier warrant.

The provisions contained by virtue of section 3(1)(c) above in a F9warrant under section 1 issued for the purpose of the temporary return of the prisoner to the United Kingdom may require the prisoner to be detained in accordance with any order which on his return will apply in respect of him in pursuance of section 2(2) above; and the Schedule to this Act shall not apply in relation to the provisions so contained in such a warrant.

In this section “relevant Minister” means–

Any reference in subsection (5)(a) to the prisoner having previously been transferred into or from Scotland includes a reference to responsibility for his detention and release having previously been transferred to or from the Scottish Ministers (as the case may be).

Any reference in subsection (5)(aa) to the prisoner having previously been transferred into or from Northern Ireland includes a reference to responsibility for his detention and release having previously been transferred to or from the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland (as the case may be).