Extradition Act 1968 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Additional Provisions in Relation to Declared Commonwealth Territories
28. Offences not of political character in declared Commonwealth territories
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For the purposes of section 9(1) and subject to subsection (2), the following offences are not offences of a political character:
an offence against the life or person of —
a head of state of the declared Commonwealth territory; or
a member of the immediate family of a head of state of the declared Commonwealth territory;
an offence against the life or person of a head of a government, or of a minister of a government, of the declared Commonwealth territory;
murder;
an offence of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of, or being an accessory before or after the fact to, or attempting or conspiring to commit, any of the offences mentioned in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c).
The Minister may, by order, restrict the application of any of the categories of offences mentioned in subsection (1) to a request made by a declared Commonwealth territory, if the declared Commonwealth territory has made provisions similar to subsection (1) in its laws.