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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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