Singapore legislation
Clause 2
Clause 2
Amendment of section 2
Section 2 of the Extradition Act, 1968 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as “the principal Act”) is hereby amended —
by deleting the words “constituting which” appearing in paragraph (b) of the definition of “extradition crime”, in relation to a declared Commonwealth country, in subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor the words “constituting the offence or the equivalent act or omission”;
by deleting the words “the act or omission constituting which” appearing in the definition of “extradition crime”, in relation to a foreign State, in subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor the words “and the act or omission constituting the offence or the equivalent act or omission”; and
by inserting immediately after subsection (6) thereof the following subsection: —“(7) Without prejudice to any powers or jurisdiction conferred upon a District Judge by the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 132), a District Judge shall in the exercise of his jurisdiction have all the powers that ate conferred upon and exercised by a Magistrate under this Act; and accordingly every reference to a Magistrate in this Act shall be read as including reference to a District Judge.”.