ACTE DU 5 AOUT

36 ET 37 Vict. Ch. 60.

(Traduction.)

Amendement à VActe d'extradition

de 1870.

Sa Majesté la Reine, de l'avis et avec le consentement des pairs spirituels et temporels, et des communes, réunis dans le présent Parlement, et avec leur autorisation, a décrété ce qui suit :

I. Le présent Acte sera interprété comme faisant partie intégrante de l'Acte d'extradition de 1870 (indiqué dans le présent Acte comme « Acte principal »).

L'Acte principal et le présent Acte pourront être cités conjointement sous la désignation : Actes de 1870 et de 1873.

36 ET 37 Vict. Ch. 60.

An Act to amend the Extradition Act, 1870. [^th August 1873.]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and Commons, in this présent Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same , as foUows :

L This Act shall be construed as onewith the Extradition Act , 1870 (in this Act referred to as the principal Act), and the principal Act and this Act may be cited togelher as the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, and this Act may be cited aloue as the Extradition Act, 1873.

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II. Whereas by section six of the principal Act it is enacted as follows :

a Where this Act applies in the « case of any foreigu state, every « fugitive criminal of that state « who is in or suspectée! of being a in any part of Her Majesty's do- « minions, or thaï part whicli is a speciûed in the order appiying « this Act (as the case may be), a shall be hable to be apprehended a and surrendered in manner pro- « vided by this Act, whelher the a crime in respect of wihich the « surrender is sought was com- « mitted before or after the date of « the order, and whether there is « or is not any concurrent juris- « diction in any Court of Her « Majesty's dominions over that a crime. »

And whereas doubts hâve arisen as to the apphcation of the said section to crimes committed before the passing of the principal Act, and it is expédient to remove such doubts, it is therefore hereby declared that :

A crime committed before the date of the order includes in the said section a crime committed before the passing of the principal Act, and the principal Act and this Act shall be construed accordingly.