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Section 2: In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
Status not yet checked* The Extradition Act, 1870, and the Acts amending the same apply to the Colony., Sierra Leone
" crime in respect of which surrender may be granted"
means a crime which would be punishable by the law of the
Protectorate, if committed in the Protectorate, and which
would (by whatever name designated by the law of the
Protectorate) be one of the crimes described in the first
schedule to this Ordinance:
Provided that every person who is accused or convicted
of having counselled, procured, commanded, aided or abetted
the commission of any crime or of being accessory before or
after the fact of any such crime, shall be deemed for the
purpose of this Ordinance to be accused or convicted of
having committed such crime, and shall be apprehended and
surrendered accordingly;
" conviction " and " convicted " do not include or refer to
a conviction which under foreign law is a conviction for
contumacy, but the term" accused person" includes a person
so convicted for contumacy;
"fugitive criminal" means any person accused or convicted of a crime, in respect of which surrender may be
granted, committed within the jurisdiction of any foreign
state who is in, or is suspected of being in, or on the way to
some part of the Protectorate;
* The Extradition Act, 1870, and the Acts amending the same apply to the Colony.
For the surrender of fugitive offenders from other parts of Her Majesty's dominion;s
cf. Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, and the West African (Fugitive Offenders) Order in Gounc$l,
1923.
" fugitive criminal of a foreign State " means a fugitive
criminal accused or convicted of a crime in respect of which
surrender may be granted, committed within the jurisdiction
of that state;
" diplomatic representative of a foreign State " includes
any person recognised by the Governor as a consul-general,
consul, vice-consul, or as the officer administering the
Government of any Possession, Dependency or Protectorate
of that state;
" warrant " in the case of any foreign State, includes any
judicial document authorising the arrest of a person accused
or convicted of crime.
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