Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F1997B01931:body:0:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F1997B01931
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ARTICLE 3

(1) Extradition of a person shall be granted for an act or omission constituting an offence, whether committed in or outside the territory of the requesting State, only where the act or omission constituting the offence would, if it had taken place under similar circumstances in the part of the territory of the requested State where he is found, have constituted an offence described in paragraph 4.
(2) Extradition shall be granted in respect of an act or omission constituting an offence only where the act or omission was, according to the law of the requesting State and the requested State, at the time when it was committed, and at the time of the decision on the request for extradition, punishable by a maximum penalty of at least one year's imprisonment and also, in the case of a person who has been convicted of the offence, where a period of imprisonment of at least four months still remains to be served.
(3) Extradition shall be granted in respect of an offence committed outside the territory of the requesting State only where the law of the requested State provides for the punishment of an offence committed outside its territory in similar circumstances.
(4) The offences referred to in paragraph 1 are as follows:
  1. Wilful murder; murder.

SCHEDULE 1—continued
    2. Manslaughter.
    3. An offence constituted by an act referred to in Article III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
    4. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of women.
    5. Maliciously or wilfully wounding or indicting grievous bodily harm: assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
    6. Rape.
    7. Unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under sixteen years of age.
    8. Indecent assault.
    9. Procuration.
    10. Bigamy.
    11. Kidnapping; abduction; false imprisonment; dealing in slaves.
    12. Stealing, abandoning, exposing or unlawfully detaining a child.
    13. Bribery.
    14. Perjury; subornation of perjury.
    15. Arson.
    16. An offence concerning counterfeit currency.
    17. Forgery or uttering what is forged.
    18. Theft; embezzlement; fraudulent conversion; fraudulent false accounting; obtaining property or credit by false pretences; receiving stolen property; any other offence in respect of property involving fraud.
    19. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor or trustee, or by a director or officer of a company.
    20. Burglary; housebreaking; any other offence involving breaking and entering premises.
    21. Robbery.
    22. Blackmail or extortion by means of threats or by abuse of authority.
    23. An offence against the law relating to bankruptcy or insolvency.
    24. Maliciously or wilfully damaging property.
    25. Any act done with intent to endanger the safety of persons travelling on a railway or on a vehicle, vessel or aircraft or to