EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1985 No. 61
Issued by the authority of the Attorney-General
EXTRADITION (REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
EXTRADITION (SWEDEN) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
EXTRADITION (STATE OF ISRAEL) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
EXTRADITION (REPUBLIC OF ITALY) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
EXTRADITION (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
EXTRADITION (BRAZIL) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
These regulations are made pursuant to sections 10 and 31 of the Extradition (Foreign States) Act 1966.
EXTRADITION (REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
EXTRADITION (SWEDEN) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Article 8 of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, Article 8 of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, and Article 8 of the Convention on the Prevention and Pubishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents, deem the offences referred to in each of the Conventions to be included in any extradition treaty in force between States Parties to the Conventions. The amendments to the Regulations have the effect of formally making offences under the Conventions offences for which Austria and Sweden and Australia are obliged to grant extradition.
EXTRADITION (STATE OF ISRAEL) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
EXTRADITION (REPUBLIC OF ITALY) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
EXTRADITION (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Article 8 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents, deems the offences referred to in the Convention to be included in any extradition treaty in force between States Parties to the Convention. The amendments to the Regulations have the effect of formally making offences under the Convention offences for which Israel, Italy and the United States of America and Australia are obliged to grant extradition.
EXTRADITION (BRAZIL) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Article 8 of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, Article 8 of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, and Article 8 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents, provide that in the case where States Parties do not make extradition conditional on the existence of a treaty they shall recognize the crimes referred to in each of the Conventions as extraditable offences between themselves subject to the procedural provisions and other conditions of the law of the requested State. Australia and Brazil are both parties to the Conventions.