Extradition (Internationally Protected Persons) Regulations (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1985 No. 641

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Extradition (Internationally Protected Persons) Regulations

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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Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Extradition (Internationally Protected Persons) Regulations.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations—

“Convention” means the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents (being the Convention referred to in the Crimes (Internationally Protected Persons) Act 1976);

“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 each 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 (5B) 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 (5B) of the Act.

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SCHEDULE Regulation 3

PART I

Argentina

Chile

Czechoslovakia

Ecuador

El Salvador

Finland

Greece

Guatemala

Hungary

Haiti

Iceland

Iraq

Liberia

Mexico

Nicaragua

Norway

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Poland

Romania

Togo

Tunisia

Uruguay

Yugoslavia

PART II

Bulgaria

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

Costa Rica

Denmark

Dominican Republic

Gabon

German Democratic Republic

Germany, Federal Republic of

PART II—continued

Iran

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of

Korea, Republic of

Mongolia

Pakistan

Philippines

Rwanda

Turkey

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Zaire

PART III

Burundi

 

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette