Europol (Amendment) Act 2006

Amendment of section 2 of Europol Act 1997.

2.— Section 2 (Convention and Protocols to have force of law) of the Europol Act 1997 is amended—

(a) in subsection (1), by the deletion of “Convention, the 1996 Protocol and the 1997 Protocol” and the substitution of “Convention and the 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002 and 2003 Protocols”,

(b) in subsection (2)—

(i) by the deletion of “and Sixth Schedules” and the substitution of “, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Schedules”,

(ii) by the deletion of “and” in paragraph (e),

(iii) by the deletion of “Protocol.” in paragraph “(f)” and the substitution of “Protocol,” and

(iv) by the addition of the following paragraphs:

“(g) the text in the English language of the 2000 Protocol,

(h) the text in the English language of the 2002 Protocol,

(i) the text in the English language of the 2003 Protocol,

(j) the text in the Irish language of the 2000 Protocol,

(k) the text in the Irish language of the 2002 Protocol, and

(l) the text in the Irish language of the 2003 Protocol.”.