Extradition (Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography) Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 1) (Cth)

Extradition (Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography) Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 1)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2009 No. 263

I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Extradition Act 1988.

Dated 8 October 2009

QUENTIN BRYCE

Governor-General

By Her Excellency’s Command

BRENDAN O’CONNOR

Minister for Home Affairs

Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Extradition (Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography) Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 1).

Commencement

These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

Amendment of Extradition (Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography) Regulations 2006

Schedule 1 amends the Extradition (Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography) Regulations 2006.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Regulation 4

substitute

Extradition countries

For the definition of extradition country in section 5 of the Act, a country, or a colony, territory or protectorate of a country, for which the Protocol is in force is an extradition country.

Note 1 For when the Protocol enters into force for a State, see Article 14 of the Protocol in Schedule 1.

Note 2 The countries for which the Protocol is currently in force are listed on the United Nations website at

[2] Regulation 5, including the note

substitute

Application of the Act

(1)The Act applies, subject to the Protocol, to an extradition country mentioned in regulation 4.

(2)For the application of the Act to an extradition country mentioned in regulation 4, and relying upon paragraph 11 (1) (b) and subsection 11 (2) of the Act, paragraph 17 (2) (a) of the Act is modified by omitting ‘45 days’ and substituting ‘60 days’.

[3] Schedule 2

omit

Note

All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See