Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F1997B01987:body:0:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F1997B01987
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 2597–5678

1. Extradition shall be granted for an act or omission constituting an offence coming within any of the following categories of offences if the offence is according to the laws of both Contracting Parties, one for which extradition can be granted:
       (i) Wilful murder; murder.
       (ii) Manslaughter.
       (iii) An offence against the law relating to genocide.
       (iv) Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman.
       (v) Maliciously or wilfully wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm: assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
       (vi) Rape.
       (vii) Unlawful sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16 years.
       (viii) Indecent assault.
       (ix) An offence against the law relating to the suppression of the traffic in persons and of the exploitation of the prostitution of others.
       (x) Abduction: false imprisonment: dealing in slaves.
       (xi) Stealing, abandoning, exposing or unlawfully detaining a child.
       (xii) Bribery.
       (xiii) Perjury: subornation of perjury: conspiring to defeat the course of justice.
       (xiv) Arson.

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       (xv) An offence concerning counterfeit currency.
       (xvi) An offence against the law relating to forgery.
        (xvii) Stealing; embezzlement; fraudulent conversion; obtaining property or credit by false pretences; receiving stolen property; fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee or by a director or officer of a company; false accounting by an officer of a company; fraud or breach of trust by a public servant.
       (xviii) Burglary; housebreaking: any similar offence.
       (xix) Robbery.
       (xx) Blackmail or extortion by means of threats or by abuse of authority.
        (xxi) An act done with the intention of endangering the safety of persons travelling on a railway, vessel or aircraft or with the intention of endangering a vessel or aircraft.
       (xxii) Piracy, involving vessels or aircraft, according to international law.
       (xxiii) An offence against the law relating to bankruptcy or insolvency.
       (xxiv) An offence against the law relating to companies.
       (xxv) Maliciously or wilfully damaging property.
       (xxvi) An offence against the law relating to dangerous drugs or narcotics.
        (xxvii) Revolt on board a vessel on the high seas or an aircraft in flight against the authority of the master of the vessel or commander of the aircraft: unlawful seizure of control of an aircraft in flight.
          (xxviii) Aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of being an accessory before or after the fact to or attempting or conspiring to commit, an offence, hereinbefore set out in this paragraph.
A person accused or convicted of any of the offences numbered (xxiii) to (xxvi) and (xxviii) shall not be extradited therefor unless he is or was liable on conviction to a term of imprisonment exceeding three years.
2. Extradition shall also be granted for any other act or omission constituting an offence if the offence is,