94 Issue of warrant transferring responsibility for detention and release of an offender to or from the relevant Minister
Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (2008 c 4) | Legislation

94  Issue of warrant transferring responsibility for detention and release of an offender to or from the relevant Minister

After section 4 of the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984 (transfer into the United Kingdom) insert—

“Transfer of responsibility for detention and release of offender present outside the country or territory in which he is required to be detained

4A Issue of warrant transferring responsibility for detention and release of offender

(1)     This section enables responsibility for the detention and release of a person to whom subsection (2) or (3) applies to be transferred between the relevant Minister in the United Kingdom and the appropriate authority in a country or territory outside the British Islands.

(2)     A person falls within this subsection if that person—

(a)     is a person to whom section 1(7) applies by virtue of—

(i)     an order made in the course of the exercise by a court or tribunal in any part of the United Kingdom of its criminal jurisdiction; or

(ii)     any of the provisions of this Act or any similar provisions of the law of any part of the United Kingdom; and

(b)     is present in a country or territory outside the British Islands.

(3)

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