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Section 14, * The Extradition Act, 1870, and the Acts amending the same apply to the Colony.

Status not yet checked* The Extradition Act, 1870, and the Acts amending the same apply to the Colony., Sierra Leone

Foreign warrants and depositions or statements on oath,and copies thereof, and certificates of, or judicial documents stating the fact of, a conviction, shall be deemed duly authenticated for the purposes of this Ordinance, if authenticated in manner provided for the time being by law or authenticated as follows- (a) if the warrant purports to be signed by a Judge, Magistrate or officer of the foreign State where the same was issued; (b) if the depositions or statements, or the copies thereof, purport to be certified, under the hand of a Judge, Magistrate or officer of the foreign State where the same were taken, to be the original depositions or statements or to be true copies thereof, as the case may require; (c) if the certificate of, or judicial document stating the fact of, conviction purports to be certified by a Judge, Magistrate or officer of the foreign State where the conviction took place; and (d) if in every case the warrants, depositions, statements, copies, certificates and judicial documents (as the case may be) are authenticated by the oath of some witness, or by being sealed with the official seal of the Minister of Justice, or some other Minister of State. And all Courts of Justice shall take judicial notice of such official seal, and shall admit the documents so authenticated by it to be received in evidence without further proof. Authentication of depositions and warrants. Jurisdiction as to crimes committed at sea. Fugitive criminal surrendered by foreign State not triable for previous crime. As to the use of forms in second schedule. Power of foreign State to obtain evidence in Protectorate. 19 and 20, Viet., c. 113. CRIMES CoMMITTED AT SEA.

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