Extradition (Hijacking of Aircraft) Regulations (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1988 No. 2821

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Extradition (Hijacking of Aircraft) Regulations

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and pursuant to section 4 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, hereby make the following Regulations under the Extradition Act 1988.

Dated 24 November 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

LIONEL BOWEN

Attorney-General

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Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Extradition (Hijacking of Aircraft) Regulations.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:

“the Act” means the Extradition Act 1988;

“the Convention” means the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, being the convention referred to in the Crimes (Hijacking of Aircraft) Act 1972.

Declaration as to extradition countries

3. Each of the countries specified in the Schedule is declared to be an extradition country.

 

Application of Act

4. Notwithstanding any limitations, conditions, exceptions or qualifications to which the application of the Act in relation to each extradition country specified in the Schedule is subject in accordance with provision made under paragraph 11 (1) (b) of the Act, the Act applies in relation to each of those extradition countries subject to the Convention.

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SCHEDULE Regulations 3 and 4

EXTRADITION COUNTRIES IN RELATION TO WHICH THE ACT APPLIES SUBJECT TO THE CONVENTION

Afghanistan

Bahrain

Benin

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

Cape Verde

Chad

China

Costa Rica

Cote d’Ivoire

Democratic Kampuchea

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

Ethiopia

Gabon

German Democratic Republic

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Honduras

Indonesia

Iran, Islamic Republic of

Iraq

Jordan

Korea, Republic of

Kuwait

Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Lebanon

Liberia

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Liechtenstein

Madagascar

Mali

Mauritania

Mongolia

Morocco

Nepal

Niger

Oman

Pakistan

Philippines, Republic of the

SCHEDULE—continued

Qatar

Rwanda

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Sudan

Suriname

Syrian Arab Republic

Togo, United Republic of

Tunisia

Turkey

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

United Arab Emirates

Venezuela

Viet Nam

Yemen

Zaire

 

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette