Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Act 2023

Communications with executing state after judgment forwarded

19. (1) The Minister shall, at the request of a competent authority of an executing state, provide the competent authority with a translation of a judgment, or such parts of the judgment as may be specified in the request, in a relevant language.

(2) Where a judgment has been forwarded to an executing state and there has been no consultation with the executing state, the Minister shall consider any reasoned opinion provided by the competent authority of that state where the opinion is provided without delay after the judgment is forwarded.

(3) The Minister shall, at the request of a competent authority of an executing state to which a judgment has been forwarded, provide without delay such additional information regarding the request as the Minister considers appropriate to the competent authority.