Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Citation | 1984 c. 47 |
Year | 1984 |
the United Kingdom is a party to international arrangements providing for the transfer between the United Kingdom and a country of territory outside the British Islands of persons to whom subsection (7) below applies, andthe F1relevant Minister and the appropriate authority of that country or territory have each agreed to the transfer under those arrangements of a particular person (in this Act referred to as “the prisoner”) , andin a case in which the terms of those arrangements provide for the prisoner to be transferred only with his consent, the prisoner's consent has been given,(2) The F1relevant Minister shall not issue a F49warrant under this section , and, if he has issued one, shall revoke it, in any case where after the duty under subsection (1) above has arisen and before the transfer in question takes place circumstances arise, or are brought to the F1relevant Minister ’s attention, which in his opinion make it inappropriate that the transfer should take place.that person is a British citizen; orthe transfer appears to the F1relevant Minister to be appropriate having regard to any close ties which that person has with the United Kingdom; orit appears to the F1relevant Minister that the transfer is such a transfer for the purpose of the temporary return of the prisoner to the United Kingdom as may be provided for by virtue of section 4(1) (b) below.of the substance, so far as relevant to the prisoner’s case, of the international arrangements in accordance with which it is proposed to transfer him,of the effect in relation to the prisoner of the warrant which it is proposed to issue in respect of him ..., in the case of a transfer into the United Kingdom, of the effect in relation to the prisoner of the law relating to his detention under that warrant (including the effect of any enactment or instrument under which he may be released earlier than provided for by the terms of the warrant) ,in the case of a transfer out of the United Kingdom, of the effect in relation to the prisoner of so much of the law of the country or territory to which he is to be transferred as has effect with respect to transfers under those arrangements, andof the powers of the F1relevant Minister under section 6 of this Act;by the prisoner himself; orin circumstances where it appears to the F1relevant Minister inappropriate by reason of the physical or mental condition or the youth of the prisoner for the prisoner to act for himself, by a person appearing to the F1relevant Minister to be an appropriate person to have acted on the prisoner’s behalf.(6) A consent given for the purposes of subsection (1) (c) above shall not be capable of being withdrawn after a warrant F54under this section has been issued in respect of the prisoner; and, accordingly, a purported withdrawal of that consent after that time shall not affect the validity of the warrant, or of any provision which by virtue of section 6 below subsequently supersedes provisions of that warrant, or of any direction given in relation to the prisoner under section 2(3) below.by virtue of an order made in the course of the exercise by a court or tribunal in the United Kingdom, or in any country or territory outside the British Islands, of its criminal jurisdiction; orunder F55any of the provisions of
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