Section 4, * The Extradition Act, 1870, and the Acts amending the same apply to the Colony.

The following restrictions shall be observed with respectto the surrender of fugitive criminals- (a) a fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is one of a political character, or if he proves to the satisfaction of a Judge of the Supreme Court or the Court before whom he is brought on habeas corpus, or to the Governor, that the requisition for his surrender has in fact been made with a view to try or punish him for an offence of a political character; (b) a fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered to a foreign State, unless provision is made by the law of that State, or by arrangement, that the fugitive criminal shall not, until he has been restored, or had an opportunity of returning to the Protectorate, be detained or tried in that foreign State for any offence committed prior to his surrender other than the crime proved by the facts on which the surrender is grounded; Duration of notice. Restrictions on surrender of fugitive criminals. Liability of fugitive criminal to surrender. (c) a fugitive criminal who has been accused of some offence within Her Majesty's jurisdiction, not being the offence for which his surrender is asked, or is undergoing sentence under any conviction in the Protectorate, shall not be surrendered until after he has been discharged, whether by acquittal or expiration of his sentence or otherwise; (d) a fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered until the expiration of fifteen days from the date of his being committed to prison to a wait his surrender.