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Extradition (Turkey) Regulations 2003

  Statutory Rules 2003 No. 2281

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Extradition Act 1988.
Dated 27 August 2003

  P. M. JEFFERY
  Governor-General
  By His Excellency's Command

  CHRISTOPHER MARTIN ELLISON
  Minister for Justice and Customs

Contents

 1 Name of Regulations
 2 Commencement
 3 Declaration of Turkey as an extradition country
 4 Application of Act

Schedule 1 Treaty on Extradition between Australia and the Republic of Turkey

Schedule 2 Exchange of Notes in relation to the Treaty on Extradition, constituting an Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Republic of Turkey
Part 1 Note from the Australian Embassy in Ankara to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey
Part 2 Note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey to the Australian Embassy in Ankara

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Extradition (Turkey) Regulations 2003.

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on 16 November 2003.

3 Declaration of Turkey as an extradition country

  Turkey is declared to be an extradition country.

4 Application of Act

  The Extradition Act 1988 applies to Turkey subject to the Treaty on Extradition between Australia and the Republic of Turkey (a copy of which is set out in Schedule 1), as corrected by, and interpreted in accordance with, the Exchange of Notes constituting an Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Republic of Turkey (a copy of which is set out in Schedule 2).
Schedule 1 Treaty on Extradition between Australia and the Republic of Turkey
(regulation 4)

Australia and the Republic of Turkey

Desiring to make more effective the co-operation between the two countries in the suppression of crime by concluding a treaty on extradition,

Have agreed as follows:

Article 1
Obligation to extradite

Each Contracting Party agrees to extradite to the other, in accordance with the provisions of this Treaty, all persons who are wanted for prosecution, trial, or the imposition or enforcement of a sentence, in the Requesting Party for an extraditable offence.

Article 2
Extraditable offences

1. Extraditable offences are offences punishable only by imprisonment for a maximum period of at least one year or by a more severe deprivation of liberty under the laws of both the Contracting Parties.

2. Where a person is sought in order to enforce a sentence of imprisonment, extradition shall be granted only if the duration of the imprisonment still to be served amounts to at least six months.

3. For the purpose of extradition, it shall not matter whether the laws of the Contracting Parties place the offence