Extradition (Hijacking of Aircraft) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1985 No. 551

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Extradition (Hijacking of Aircraft) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Extradition (Foreign States) Act 1966.

Dated 23 April 1985.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

LIONEL BOWEN

Attorney-General

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Principal Regulations

1. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Extradition (Hijacking of Aircraft) Regulations.

2. Regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations is repealed and the following regulations are substituted:

Interpretation

“2. In these Regulations—

‘Convention’ means the Convention for the Supression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (being the Convention referred to in the Crimes (Hijacking of Aircraft) Act 1972);

‘the Act’ means the Extradition (Foreign States) Act 1966.

Application of Act

“3. (1) Notwithstanding any limitations, conditions, exceptions, or qualifications to which the application of the Act in relation to a foreign state specified in Part I of the Schedule is subject by reason of sub-section 9 (2) or 11 (2) of the Act, the Act applies in relation to each of those foreign states subject to the Convention.

“(2) Notwithstanding any limitations, conditions, exceptions or qualifications to which the application of the Act in relation to each foreign state specified in Part II of the Schedule is subject by reason of sub-section 11 (2) of the Act, the Act applies in relation to each of those foreign states subject to—

(a) the Convention; and

(b) the condition that offences against a law of, or of a part of, that state that are offences of the kind referred to in sub-section 4 (5) of the Act are extradition crimes for the purposes of the Act.

“(3) The Act applies in relation to each foreign state specified in Part III of the Schedule subject to—

(a) the Convention; and

(b) the condition that the only offences against a law of, or of a part of, that state that are extradition crimes for the purposes of the Act are offences of the kind referred to in sub-section 4 (5) of the Act.”.

3. The Schedule to the Principal Regulations is omitted and the following Schedule substituted:

SCHEDULE Regulation 3

PART I

Argentina

Belgium

Bolivia

Chile

Colombia

Czechoslovakia

Ecuador

El Salvador

Finland

France

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Iraq

Liberia

Luxembourg

Mexico

Netherlands

Nicaragua

Norway

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Portugal

Romania

Spain

Switzerland

Thailand

Togo

Tunisia

Uruguay

Yugoslavia

PART II

Benin

Costa Rica

Denmark

Egypt

Gabon

Germany, Federal Republic of

Indonesia

Ireland

Ivory Coast

Japan

Jordan

Korea, Republic of

Kuwait

Libya

Niger

Philippines

Senegal

South Africa

Syrian Arab Republic

Zaire

PART III

Afghanistan

Bahrain

Bulgaria

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

Cape Verde Islands

Chad

China, People’s Republic of

Dominican Republic

Ethiopia

German Democratic Republic

Guinea-Bissau

Iran

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of

Lebanon

Mali

Mauritania

Mongolia

Morocco

Nepal

Oman

Pakistan

Qatar

Rwanda

Saudi Arabia

Sudan

Suriname

Turkey

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

United Arab Emirates

Venezuela

Vietnam, Socialist Republic of

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 3 May 1985.

2. Statutory Rules 1973 No. 103 as amended by 1976 No. 184 and 1978 No. 16.