Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Act 2023

Consent of executing state

14. Subject to this Part, a judgment to which an application relates may be forwarded to the competent authority of an executing state for the purposes of the recognition of the judgment and enforcement of the sentence to which the judgment relates in the executing state where—

(a) the sentenced person is a national of the executing state and he or she lives in that state,

(b) the sentenced person is a national of the executing state and he or she will be sent to that state upon release from the enforcement of the sentence to which the judgment relates in accordance with an order included in, or ancillary to, the judgment, or

(c) in the case of any other executing state, the competent authority of the executing state has given its consent in writing to the forwarding of the judgment.