Statutory Instruments
2010 No. 36
Criminal Law, England And Wales
Criminal Law, Northern Ireland
The Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (Designation of Participating Countries) (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) Order 2010
Made
8th January 2010
Coming into force in accordance with article 1
A draft of this Order has been approved by each House of Parliament in accordance with section 50(5)(a) of the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003( 1 ).
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 51(2)(b) of the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003(‘the 2003 Act’), makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (Designation of Participating Countries) (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) Order 2010 and shall come into force on the first day of the month following the expiry of three months from the date on which the United Kingdom deposits an instrument of ratification in respect of the Second Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters( 2 ) with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe( 3 ).
2. This Order extends to England and Wales and Northern Ireland.
3. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ... the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Israel, Montenegro and Serbia are designated as participating countries under section 51(2)(b) of the 2003 Act for the purposes of sections 31, 47 and 48 of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 to, the 2003 Act.
4. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ... the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Israel, Montenegro and Serbia are also designated as participating countries under section 51(2)(b) of the 2003 Act for the purposes of sections 4 and 4B( 4 ) of that Act.
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West of Spithead
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Home Office
Cmnd 5603 of 2002.
The Council of Europe provides notification as to the ratification of Council of Europe instruments on the following page of its website: http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/ChercheSig.asp?NT=182&CM=8&DF=1/28/2009&CL=ENG .
Section 4B was inserted by section 331 of, and paragraph 16 of Schedule 36 to, the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c.44) .