S.I. No. 659/2007 - Transfer of Execution of Sentences Act 2005 (Designated Countries) Order 2007

1. This Order may be cited as the

Transfer of Execution of Sentences Act 2005

(Designated Countries) Order 2007.

2. The countries specified in the Schedule to this Order are designated for the purposes of the

Transfer of Execution of Sentences Act 2005

(No. 28 of 2005).

SCHEDULE

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Italy

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

San Marino

Serbia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Ukraine

United Kingdom

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

27 September 2007

DERMOT AHERN.

Minister for Foreign Affairs.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(The note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The effect of this Order is to designate, for the purposes of the enabling Act, those countries that have ratified, accepted, approved or acceded to the Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons done at Strasbourg on 18 December 1997, or have ratified or acceded to the Schengen Convention, or have given effect under its laws to the provisions of Chapter 5 of Title III of the Schengen Convention or Article 2 of the Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons.

S.I. No. 659 of 2007

TRANSFER OF EXECUTION OF SENTENCES ACT 2005 (DESIGNATED COUNTRIES) ORDER 2007

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

2

nd October

, 2007.

I, DERMOT AHERN, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 5

of the

Transfer of Execution of Sentences Act 2005

(No. 28 of 2005), hereby order as follows