Extradition (Protection of Aircraft) Regulations (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1985 No. 631

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Extradition (Protection of Aircraft) 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 (Protection of Aircraft) Regulations.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations—

“Convention” means the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (being the Convention referred to in the Crimes (Protection of Aircraft) Act 1973);

“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 (5a) of the Act are extradition crimes for the purposes of the Act.

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SCHEDULE Regulation 3

PART I

Argentina

Belgium

Bolivia

Cameroon

Chile

Colombia

Czechoslovakia

Ecuador

El Salvador

Finland

France

Greece

Guatemala

Hungary

Iceland

Iraq

Liberia

Luxembourg

Mexico

Netherlands

Nicaragua

Norway

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Portugal

Romania

Spain

Switzerland

Thailand

Togo

Tunisia

Uruguay

Yugoslavia

PART 11

Bulgaria

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

Cape Verde Islands

Chad

China, People’s Republic of

Costa Rica

Denmark

Dominican Republic

PART II—continued

Egypt

Ethiopia

Gabon

German Democratic Republic

Germany, Federal Republic of

Guinea-Bissau

Indonesia

Iran

Ireland

Ivory Coast

Japan

Jordan

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of

Korea, Republic of

Kuwait

Lebanon

Libya

Mali

Mauritania

Mongolia

Morocco

Nepal

Niger

Pakistan

Philippines

Poland

Rwanda

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

South Africa

Sudan

Syrian Arab Republic

Suriname

Turkey

Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

United Arab Emirates

Venezuela

Vietnam, Socialist Republic of

Zaire

 

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette