Seanad debates

Wednesday, 11 June 2003

Criminal Justice (Illicit Traffic by Sea) Bill 2000: Committee and Remaining Stages.

 

10:30 am

Sheila Terry (Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 3:

In page 5, subsection (2), line 24, after "request" to insert "is to be communicated at least within two days of receiving notification from the Minister in accordance with section 7(3) and".

If the flag state is to receive preferential jurisdiction, should there not be a requirement that the convention or flag state be notified of a vessel arrested or a person on board a vessel arrested, in accordance with section 5? The master of the vessel is entitled to communicate to the convention state, as pursuant to section 4. How otherwise will a convention state be able to make a request for surrender of the person being arrested, the vessel being detained or anything seized from a vessel and retained in accordance with section 7 of the Bill, unless it has received notification from the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, and has dealt with said notification within two days of the arrest or seizure?

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