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Extradition (Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel) Regulations 2000
Statutory Rules 2000 No. 308 as amended
made under the
Extradition Act 1988
This compilation was prepared on 14 October 2009
taking into account amendments up to SLI 2009 No. 264
Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing,
Attorney-General's Department, Canberra

Contents
 1 Name of Regulations [see Note 1]
 2 Commencement [see Note 1]
 3 Definitions
 4 Extradition countries
 5 Application of the Act
Schedule 1 Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel
Notes

1 Name of Regulations [see Note 1]
  These Regulations are the Extradition (Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel) Regulations 2000.
2 Commencement [see Note 1]
  These Regulations commence on the commencement of the Criminal Code Amendment (United Nations and Associated Personnel) Act 2000.
3 Definitions
Act means the Extradition Act 1988.
Convention means the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel, done at New York on 9 December 1994, a copy of the English text of which is set out in Schedule 1.
4 Extradition countries
  For the definition of extradition country in section 5 of the Act, a country, or a colony, territory or protectorate of a country, for which the Convention is in force is an extradition country.
Note 1   For when the Convention enters into force for a State, see Article 27 of the Convention in Schedule 1.
Note 2   The countries for which the Convention is currently in force are listed on the United Nations website at http://www.un.org.
5 Application of the Act
  The Act applies, subject to the Convention, to an extradition country mentioned in regulation 4.
Schedule 1 Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel
(regulation 3)

THE STATES PARTIES TO THIS CONVENTION,

DEEPLY CONCERNED over the growing number of deaths and injuries resulting from deliberate attacks against United Nations and associated personnel,

BEARING IN MIND that attacks against, or other mistreatment of, personnel who act on behalf of the United Nations are unjustifiable and unacceptable, by whomsoever committed,

RECOGNIZING that United Nations operations are conducted in the common interest of the international community and in accordance with the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations,

ACKNOWLEDGING the important contribution that United Nations and associated personnel make in respect of United Nations efforts in the fields of preventive diplomacy, peacemaking, peace-keeping, peace‑building and humanitarian and other operations,

CONSCIOUS of the existing arrangements for ensuring the safety of United Nations and associated personnel, including the steps taken by the principle organs of the United Nations, in this regard,

RECOGNIZING none the less that existing measures of protection for United Nations and associated personnel are inadequate,

ACKNOWLEDGING