European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Act 2024

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Number 9 of 2024

EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT (AMENDMENT) ACT 2024

CONTENTS

Section

1. Definition

2. Application of Act

3. Amendment of section 2 of Act of 2003

4. Amendment of section 10 of Act of 2003

5. Amendment of section 12 of Act of 2003

6. Amendment of section 13 of Act of 2003

7. Amendment of section 14 of Act of 2003

8. Insertion of sections 14A and 14B in Act of 2003

9. Amendment of section 15 of Act of 2003

10. Amendment of section 16 of Act of 2003

11. Failure to comply with time periods in section 15 or 16

12. Amendment of section 18 of Act of 2003

13. Amendment of section 19 of Act of 2003

14. Amendment of section 21 of Act of 2003

15. Amendment of section 22 of Act of 2003

16. Amendment of section 23 of Act of 2003

17. Amendment of section 27 of Act of 2003

18. Amendment of section 28 of Act of 2003

19. Extradition arrangements with third countries

20. Amendment of section 33 of Act of 2003

21. Request for disapplication of rule of specialty

22. Guarantees surrounding custodial sentences imposed in absentia

23. Conditional surrender to State pursuant to relevant arrest warrant

24. Amendment of section 38 of Act of 2003

25. Amendment of section 39 of Act of 2003

26. Amendment of section 41 of Act of 2003

27. Amendment of section 42 of Act of 2003

28. Amendment of section 44 of Act of 2003

29. Amendment of section 45 of Act of 2003

30. Amendment of section 46 of Act of 2003

31. Repeals

32. Short title, collective citation, construction and commencement

Acts Referred to

Children Act 2001 (No. 24)

Civil Law and Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 (No. 13)

Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008 (No. 7)

European Arrest Warrant Act 2003 (No. 45)

European Arrest Warrant Acts 2003 and 2012

Number 9 of 2024

EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT (AMENDMENT) ACT 2024

An Act to give further effect to Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002¹ on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States, as amended by Council Framework Decision of 26 February 2009² amending Framework Decisions 2002/584/JHA, 2005/214/JHA, 2006/783/JHA, 2008/909/JHA and 2008/947/JHA, thereby enhancing the procedural rights of persons and fostering the application of the principle of mutual recognition to decisions rendered in the absence of the person concerned at the trial; for that and other purposes to amend the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003 ; and to provide for related matters.

[12th March, 2024]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:

¹ OJ No. L 190, 18.07.2002, p. 1

² OJ No. L 81, 27.3.2009, p. 81