Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2004C00142:body:0:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2004C00142
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of the requesting State who is a national of the requesting State, the requested State shall, subject to its law, extradite the person sought unless it considers it proper not to do so.

ARTICLE II

1. Subject to the provisions of this Article, extradition shall be granted only in respect of the following offences:
 (i) Wilful murder; murder.
 (ii) Manslaughter.
 (iii) An offence against the law relating to genocide.
 (iv) Illegal abortion.
 (v) Maliciously or wilfully wounding or inflicting serious bodily harm.
 (vi) Assault causing actual bodily harm.
 (vii) Rape.
 (viii) Unlawful sexual intercourse with a female.
 (ix) Indecent assault.
 (x) An offence against the law relating to the suppression of the traffic in persons and of the exploitation of the prostitution of others.
 (xi) Bigamy.
 (xii) Kidnapping; abduction; false imprisonment; dealing in slaves.
 (xiii) Stealing, abandoning, exposing or unlawfully detaining a child.
 (xiv) Bribery.
 (xv) Perjury; subornation of perjury; conspiring to defeat the course of justice.
 (xvi) Arson.
 (xvii) An offence relating to counterfeit currency.
 (xviii) An offence against the law relating to forgery or uttering what is forged.
 (xix) Stealing; embezzlement; fraudulent conversion; false accounting; obtaining property or pecuniary advantage by deception; receiving stolen property; any other offence involving fraud.
 (xx) Burglary; housebreaking.
 (xxi) Robbery.
 (xxii) Blackmail or extortion by means of threats or by abuse of authority.
 (xxiii) An offence against the law relating to bankruptcy or insolvency.
 (xxiv) Maliciously or wilfully damaging property.
 (xxv) An act done with the intention of endangering the safety of persons travelling on a railway, vehicle, vessel or aircraft or of endangering or damaging a railway, vehicle, vessel or aircraft.
 (xxvi) Piracy.
 (xxvii) An unlawful act against the authority of the master of a vessel.
(xxviii) Unlawful seizure, or unlawful exercise of control, of an aircraft, by force or threat of force or by any other form of intimidation.
 (xxix) An offence against the law relating to dangerous drugs, narcotics or psychotropic substances.
 (xxx) Participating in the commission of, impeding the arrest or prosecution of a person who has committed, or attempting or conspiring to commit, an offence described in this paragraph.

2. Extradition shall only be granted for an act or omission constituting an offence referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article if —

 (a) in the requesting State the offence is punishable by a maximum punishment that is not less severe than imprisonment or other deprivation of liberty for a period exceeding one year; and

 (b) in the requested State the offence is, or if it had been committed there in similar circumstances would have been, punishable by a maximum punishment that is not less severe than imprisonment or other deprivation of liberty for a period exceeding one