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EXTRADITION ACT
Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)
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EXTRADITION ACT
ACT
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
Designation Orders – Section 32 (Statutory Instruments 146/2006 and 31/2017)
1. Citation
2. Declaration of approved premises
PART 1 APPLICATION
3. Extradition crime
4. Application of Part
5. Power to apprehend and surrender fugitive
6. General restrictions on return
7. Agreement with Commonwealth country
8. When death penalty likely
9. Arrest on foreign warrant
10. Effect of magistrate's warrant
11. Jurisdiction of magistrate
12. Proceedings for Committal
13. Detention of fugitive
14. Evidence of extradition crime
15. Evidence for fugitive
16. Committal for surrender
17. Discharge order
18. Duty of magistrate on committal
19. Appeal to High Court
20. Prescribed delay for surrender
21. Requisition from Commonwealth country
22. Requisition from foreign State
23. Duty of Attorney General to refuse surrender
24. Concurrent requisitions
25. Local offence by fugitive from Commonwealth country
26. Local offence by fugitive from foreign State
27. Delivering up fugitive for surrender
28. Powers of custodian of surrendered fugitive
29. Evidence in possession of fugitive
30. Expenses
31. Judicial discharge for delayed surrender
PART 2 COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES
32. Designation of Commonwealth countries
33. Special modification order
34. Part of a Commonwealth country
PART 3 EXTRADITION TREATY STATES
35. Applying Part 1 under U.K. Orders
36. Applying Part 1 subject to conditions etc
37. Revoking application of Part 1
38. Applying Part 1 under extradition treaty
39. Surrender when no treaty exists
40. Application of section 39
PART 4 EXTRADITION FROM OTHER COUNTRIES OR STATES
41. Meaning of “extradition crime”
42. Requisition to return offender to Saint Lucia
43. Returning offender to Saint Lucia
44. Power over offender circumscribed
PART 5 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
45. Offences of a political character
46. Conviction in absentia
47. Jurisdiction in civil aviation cases
48. Jurisdiction re offences in aircraft
49. Regulations
Schedule