Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

This inserts a new paragraph after paragraph (a) in section 3 of the Bill. Its purpose is to amend section 14(7) of the European Arrest Warrant Act. Section 14 of that Act deals with arrest without warrant on the grounds of urgency. This is a technical amendment following an amendment to section 12 of the European Arrest Warrant Act, which was inserted in the Dáil and which clarified the status of a European arrest warrant which is received by fax. The amendment to section 12 is inserted by section 62 of the Bill. The present amendment clarifies that faxed copies, which were provided for by this House when it was considering the Bill, are also acceptable in cases where the person has been arrested on grounds of urgency on foot of a Schengen alert. It is extending the same principle to a slightly different situation.

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