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United States of America (Extradition) Order in Council 1935
art 17

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1The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other, under certain circumstances and conditions stated in the present Treaty, those persons who, bei
2For the purposes of the present Treaty the territory of His Britannic Majesty shall be deemed to be Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and
3Extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes or offences: 1. Murder (including assassination, parricide, infanticide, poisoning), or attem
4The extradition shall not take place if the person claimed has already been tried and discharged or punished, or is still under trial in the territories of the
5The extradition shall not take place if, subsequently to the commission of the crime or offence or the institution of the penal prosecution or the conviction th
6A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the crime or offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is one of a political character, or if he pro
7A person surrendered can in no case be kept in custody or be brought to trial in the territories of the High Contracting Party to whom the surrender has been ma
8The extradition of fugitive criminals under the provisions of this Treaty shall be carried out in the United States and in the territory of His Britannic Majest
9The extradition shall take place only if the evidence be found sufficient, according to the laws of the High Contracting Party applied to, either to justify the
10If the individual claimed by one of the High Contracting Parties in pursuance of the present Treaty should be also claimed by one or several other Powers on acc
11If sufficient evidence for the extradition be not produced within two months from the date of the apprehension of the fugitive, or within such further time as t
12All articles seized which were in the possession of the person to be surrendered at the time of his apprehension, and any articles that may serve as a proof of
13All expenses connected with the extradition shall be borne by the High Contracting Party making the application.
14His Britannic Majesty may accede to the present Treaty on behalf of any of his Dominions hereafter named — that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwea
15The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal who has taken refuge in any territory of His Britannic Majesty other than Great Britain and Northern Ir
16This Treaty shall apply in the same manner as if they were Possessions of His Britannic Majesty to the following British Protectorates, that is to say, the Bech
17If after the signature of the present Treaty it is considered advisable to extend its provisions to any British Protectorate other than those mentioned in the p
18The present Treaty shall come into force 10 days after its publication, in conformity with the forms prescribed by the laws of the High Contracting Parties. It
Exchange of letters constituting an Agreement 1 between the United States of America and Singapore for the continued application to Singapore of the United States/United Kingdom Treaty of December 22, 1931 2 concerning extradition 1 Came into force on 10 June 1969 by the exchange of the said letters. 2 League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. CLXIII, p. 59.

United States of America (Extradition) Order in Council 1935 · 2024 Revised Edition

17. If after the signature of the present Treaty it is considered advisable to extend its provisions to any British Protectorate other than those mentioned in the p

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