Statutory Rules
1973 No. 103
REGULATIONS UNDER THE EXTRADITION (FOREIGN STATES) ACT 1966-1972.*
WHEREAS the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (being the Convention referred to in the Crimes (Hijacking of Aircraft) Act 1972) entered into force for Australia on the ninth day of December, 1972:
AND WHEREAS it is necessary, in order to give effect to that Convention, that the Extradition (Foreign States) Act 1966-1972 should apply in relation to the foreign states specified in Part I of the Schedule to the following Regulations subject to that Convention:
AND WHEREAS it is necessary, in order to give effect to that Convention, that the Extradition (Foreign States) Act 1966-1972 should apply in relation to the foreign states specified in Part II of the Schedule to the following Regulations and should so apply subject to the condition set out in sub-regulation (2) of regulation 2 of those Regulations:
NOW THEREFORE I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Extradition (Foreign States) Act 1966-1972.
Dated this thirty-first day of May, 1973.
PAUL HASLUCK
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
LIONEL MURPHY
Attorney-General.
EXTRADITION (HIJACKING OF AIRCRAFT) REGULATIONS
Citation.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Extradition (Hijacking of Aircraft) Regulations.
Application of Extradition (Foreign States) Act.
2. (1) Notwithstanding any limitations, conditions, exceptions or qualifications to which the application of the Extradition (Foreign States) Act 1966-1972 in relation to the foreign states specified in Part I of the Schedule is subject by reason of sub-section (2) of section 9 of that Act, that Act applies in relation to those foreign states subject to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (being the Convention referred to in the Crimes (Hijacking of Aircraft) Act 1972).
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 7 June 1973.
(2) The Extradition (Foreign States) Act 1966-1972 applies in relation to the foreign states specified in Part II of the Schedule but so applies subject to the condition that the only offences against a law of, or of a part of, any of those foreign states that are extradition crimes for the purposes of that Act are the offences referred to in sub-section (5) of section 4 of that Act.
SCHEDULE Regulation 2
PART I
Argentine Republic
Republic of Chile
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
Republic of Ecuador
Republic of Finland
French Republic
Hungarian People’s Republic
Republic of Iraq
United Mexican States
Kingdom of Norway
Republic of Panama
Republic of Paraguay
Socialist Republic of Romania
Spanish State
Swiss Confederation
United States of America
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
PART II
Federative Republic of Brazil
People’s Republic of Bulgaria
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Republic of Chad
Republic of Costa Rica
Republic of Dahomey
Kingdom of Denmark
Gabonese Republic
Federal Republic of Germany
Empire of Iran
State of Israel
Japan
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Republic of Mali
Mongolian People’s Republic
Republic of Niger
Polish People’s Republic
Republic of South Africa
Kingdom of Sweden
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.