Law library · Sierra Leone · * The Extradition Act, 1870, and the Acts amending the same apply to the Colony.
Section 16: Where, in pursuance of any arrangement with a foreign
Status not yet checked* The Extradition Act, 1870, and the Acts amending the same apply to the Colony., Sierra Leone
State, any person accused or convicted of any crime which, if
committed in the Protectorate, would be (by whatever name
designated by the law of the Protectorate) one of the crimes
described in the first schedule to this Ordinance, is surrendered
by that foreign State, such person shall not, until he has been
restored or had an opportunity of returning to such foreign
State, be triable or tried for any offence committed prior to
the surrender in any part of Her Majesty's Dominions or
Protectorates other than such of the said crimes as may be
proved by the facts on which the surrender is grounded.
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