(1) Where, in respect of any fugitive, the Attorney General receives requisitions for his or her surrender—
(a) from more than one Commonwealth country;
(b) from more than one foreign State; or
(c) from one or more Commonwealth countries and one or more foreign States,
the Attorney General may, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, order the surrender of the fugitive in response to the requisition of that jurisdiction that seems to the Attorney General to have the preferred claim on the fugitive; and the Attorney General may refuse to make an order for surrender in response to any of the other requisitions.
(2) In considering the circumstances under subsection (1), the Attorney General may have regard particularly to—
(a) the relative seriousness of the extradition crime in question;
(b) the dates on which the requisitions for surrender were made; and
(c) the nationality or citizenship of the fugitive and his or her place of ordinary residence.