UK Offence Report

The Extradition (Torture) Order 1991

UK Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 1702 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
1revoked
Made
24 July 1991
In force from
22 August 1991
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Courts, police, prisons and the administration of justice
Made under
And whereas section 22(3) of the Extradition Act 1989, Extradition Act 1989, Her by sections 2 and 21 of the Extradition Act 1870, Order in Council under section 2 of the Extradition Act 1870, Orders in Council under section 2 of the Extradition Act 1870

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order applies the Extradition Act 1989 so as to make extraditable the offence described in section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33) and an attempt to commit such an offence in the case of States Parties to the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10th December 1984; it does not apply to those States Parties (Commonwealth countries and Parties to the European Convention on Extradition) in relation to which the definition of extraditable offence already includes offences of the kind mentioned in the Order, except to the extent that extradition arrangements continue in force in respect of extradition between Parties to the European Convention and one or more of the territories specified in Schedule 5.

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