SCHEDULEPower of arrest for extradition purposes

PART 2Consequential amendments

Extradition Act 2003

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1

Section 136 (persons serving sentences outside territory where convicted) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1)—

a

in paragraph (a) omit “or” at the end;

b

in paragraph (b), at the end insert

, or

c

a request for the person's arrest is made by an authority of a specified category 2 territory (within the meaning of section 74B(7)) and the request contains the statement referred to in subsection (2).

3

In subsection (3)—

a

in paragraph (b), after “subsection (1)(b)” insert “ or (c) (as the case may be) ”;

b

after paragraph (b) insert—

c

section 74C(1)(b) has effect as if the reference to the statement referred to in subsection (4) of that section were a reference to the statement in subsection (2) of this section;

d

section 74C(5) has effect as if paragraph (c) were omitted and as if in paragraph (d)—

i

“the category 2 territory” read “the convicting territory”;

ii

“if the person has been sentenced for the offence” were omitted.

4

In subsection (4)—

a

after paragraph (a) insert—

aa

section 74(7)(a) has effect as if “accused of the commission of an offence in a category 2 territory or that he is alleged to be unlawfully at large after conviction of an offence by a court in a category 2 territory” read “alleged to be unlawfully at large from a prison in the imprisoning territory after conviction of an offence in the convicting territory”;

b

after paragraph (c) insert—

ca

section 74B(1)(b) has effect as if sub-paragraph (i) were omitted and as if for sub-paragraph (ii) there were substituted—

ii

the person is alleged to be unlawfully at large from a prison in the imprisoning territory after conviction of an offence in the convicting territory;

cb

section 74B(1)(c) has effect as if “a serious extradition offence” read “a serious extradition offence in relation to the convicting territory”;

cc

section 74E(1)(a) has effect as if “accused of the commission of an offence in a category 2 territory or are alleged to be unlawfully at large after conviction of an offence by a court in a category 2 territory” read “alleged to be unlawfully at large from a prison in the imprisoning territory after conviction of an offence in the convicting territory”;

cd

section 74E(2)(a) has effect as if “the category 2 territory in which the person is accused of the commission of an offence or is alleged to have been convicted of an offence” read “the imprisoning territory”;