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<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/33/section/21/1/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/33/section/21/1" id="section-21-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
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<Text>This section applies where—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/33/section/21/1/a/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/33/section/21/1/a" id="section-21-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>a request is made—</Text>
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<Pnumber>i</Pnumber>
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<Text>by some person recognised as a diplomatic or consular representative of a foreign state in the case of which an Order in Council under section 2 of the <MarginNoteRef Ref="m00013"/>Extradition Act 1870 applies or as between which and the United Kingdom extradition procedures under Part III of this Act are available; or</Text>
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<Pnumber>ii</Pnumber>
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<Text>by or on behalf of the Government of a designated Commonwealth country or the Governor of a colony,</Text>
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<Text>for the arrest and return of a person in the United Kingdom who is alleged to be unlawfully at large from a prison in which he was serving a sentence in pursuance of international arrangements for the repatriation of prisoners sentenced in one country (“the country of conviction”) to serve their sentences in another (“the country of imprisonment”); and</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>there are furnished with the request—</Text>
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<Pnumber>i</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>particulars of the person whose return is requested;</Text>
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<Pnumber>ii</Pnumber>
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<Text>particulars of the offence of which he was convicted (including evidence sufficient to justify the issue of a warrant for his arrest under the relevant legislation);</Text>
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<Pnumber>iii</Pnumber>
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<Text>a certificate of the conviction and sentence; and</Text>
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<Pnumber>iv</Pnumber>
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<Text>a certificate of the international arrangements for repatriation under which he was held.</Text>
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<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
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<Text>Where this section applies, the relevant legislation shall have effect—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>if the request is from the country of conviction, as if the person to whom the request relates were alleged to be unlawfully at large from a prison in that country; and</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>if it is from the country of imprisonment, as if he were alleged to have been convicted of a corresponding offence under the law of that country committed there,</Text>
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<Text>and the question whether the person to whom the request relates is to be returned shall be determined, subject to subsection (3) below, in accordance with that legislation.</Text>
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<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
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<Text>A person shall not be returned under subsection (2)(b) above unless—</Text>
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<Text>the offence was committed in the country of conviction; or</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>the offence was not committed there but was committed in circumstances in which he might be returned on a request made by the country of conviction.</Text>
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<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
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<Text>In this section “the relevant legislation” means the provisions of this Act that are relevant—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>if the case falls within paragraph (a) of subsection (2) above, to extradition to the country of conviction; and</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>if it falls within paragraph (b), to extradition to the country of imprisonment.</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1870/52" id="c00042" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1870" Number="0052">1870 c. 52</Citation>.</Text>
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