EXTRADITION (COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES) AMENDMENT ACT 1976
No. 9
of 1977
An Act to amend the Extradition (Commonwealth
Countries) Act 1966-1973.
BE IT ENACTED by
the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Australia, as follows:—
Short
title and citation.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Extradition
(Commonwealth Countries) Amendment Act 1976.
(2) The Extradition
(Commonwealth Countries) Act 1966-1973 is in this Act referred to as the Principal
Act.
(3) The Principal
Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Extradition (Commonwealth
Countries) Act 1966-1976.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on
which it receives the Royal Assent.
Interpretation.
3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by
inserting after sub-section (4a)
the following sub-section:—
“(4b)
On
and after the day on which the Convention referred to in the Crimes
(Internationally Protected Persons) Act 1976 enters into force for
Australia, an offence against a law of, or of a part of, a declared
Commonwealth country that is bound by that Convention, being an offence
constituted by an act, including an act taking place in Australia, that is of a
kind referred to in item 31a or
item 34 in Schedule 1 and over which the declared Commonwealth country is
required by paragraph 1 of Article 3 of that Convention to establish its
jurisdiction, shall, for the purposes of this Act—
(a) be deemed to be an extradition crime and to have
been committed within the jurisdiction of the declared Commonwealth country;
and
(b) not be taken to be an offence that is, or is by
reason of circumstances in which it is alleged to have been committed or was
committed, an offence of a political character.”.
Schedule
1.
4. Schedule 1 to the Principal Act is amended by
inserting after item 31 the following item:—
“31a. An act of a kind referred to in
paragraph 1(a), (b) or (c) of Article 2 of the Convention referred to in the Crimes
(Internationally Protected Persons) Act 1976.”.