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the punishment of an offence committed outside its territory in similar circumstances.

Article 2
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) Aiding or abetting, or counselling or procuring the commission of, suicide.
        (v) Illegal abortion.
        (vi) Maliciously or wilfully wounding or inflicting serious bodily harm.
        (vii) Assault causing actual bodily harm.
        (viii) Assaulting a Magistrate, a police office or a public officer.
        (ix) Assault on board a ship or aircraft with intent to destroy life or to cause grievous bodily harm.
        (x) Rape.
        (xi) Unlawful sexual intercourse with a female.
        (xii) Indecent assault.
        (xiii) An offence against the law relating to the suppression of the traffic in persons and of the exploitation of the prostitution of others.
        (xiv) Bigamy.
        (xv) Kidnapping; abduction; false imprisonment; dealing in slaves.
        (xvi) Stealing, abandoning, exposing or unlawfully detaining a child.
        (xvii) Bribery.
        (xviii) Perjury; subornation of perjury; obstructing or defeating the course of justice.
        (xix) Arson.
        (xx) An offence relating to counterfeit currency.
        (xxi) An offence against the law relating to forgery or uttering what is forged.
        (xxii) Embezzlement: fraudulent conversion; false accounting; obtaining property, money, valuable securities or credit by false pretences or other form of deception; receiving stolen property; any other offence involving fraud.
       (xxiii) Stealing; burglary; housebreaking; any similar offence.
       (xxiv) Robbery.

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        (xxv) Blackmail or extortion by means of threats or by abuse of authority.
        (xxvi) An offence against the law relating to bankruptcy or insolvency.
        (xxvii) An offence against the law relating to companies.
        (xxviii) Maliciously or wilfully damaging property.
        (xxix) 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.
        (xxx) Piracy.
        (xxxi) An unlawful act against the authority of the master of a vessel or the commander of an aircraft.
        (xxxii) Unlawful seizure, or unlawful exercise of control, of a vessel or an aircraft, by force or threat of force or by any other form of intimidation.
        (xxxiii) An unlawful act of any of the kinds specified in paragraph 1 of Article 1 of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation.
        (xxxiv) An offence against the law relating to dangerous drugs, narcotics or psychotropic substances.
        (xxxv) 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.
        (xxxvi) Any offence which would be described in this paragraph if the description contained a reference