Extradition (Physical Protection of Nuclear Material) Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 1)1
Select Legislative Instrument 2007 No. 269
I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Extradition Act 1988.
Dated 6 September 2007
P. M. JEFFERY
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command
DAVID ALBERT LLOYD JOHNSTON
Minister for Justice and Customs
1              Name of Regulations
                These Regulations are the Extradition (Physical Protection of Nuclear Material) Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 1).
2              Commencement
                These Regulations commence as follows:
                 (a)     on the day after they are registered — regulations 1 to 3 and Schedule 1;
                (b)     on the day on which the amendments done at Vienna on 8 July 2005 to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material done at Vienna and at New York on 3 March 1980 enter into force for Australia — Schedule 2.
3              Amendment of Extradition (Physical Protection of Nuclear Material) Regulations
         (1)   Schedule 1 amends the Extradition (Physical Protection of Nuclear Material) Regulations.
         (2)   Schedule 2 amends the Extradition (Physical Protection of Nuclear Material) Regulations as amended by Schedule 1.
Schedule 1        Amendments commencing on day after registration
(subregulation 3 (1))
  
[1]           Regulation 1
substitute
1              Name of Regulations
                These Regulations are the Extradition (Physical Protection of Nuclear Material) Regulations 1988.
[2]           Regulations 3 and 4
substitute
3              Declaration of extradition countries
                For these Regulations, each country, colony, territory or protectorate mentioned in Schedule 1 is declared to be an extradition country.
4              Application of the Act
                The Act applies, subject to the Physical Protection Convention, in relation to each extradition country mentioned in Schedule 1.
[3]           Schedule
substitute
Schedule 1        Extradition countries to which the Act applies subject to the Physical Protection Convention
(regulations 3 and 4)
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belgium
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Ecuador
Equatorial Guinea
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Korea, Republic of
Kuwait
Latvia
Lebanon
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of
Madagascar
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands, Republic of the
Mexico
Moldova, Republic of
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russian Federation
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sudan
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States of America
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Yemen
Schedule 2        Amendments commencing on day on which amendments done at Vienna on 8 July 2005 to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material enter into force for Australia
(subregulation 3 (2))
  
[1]           Regulation 2
substitute
2              Definitions
                In these Regulations:
Act means the Extradition Act 1988.
Physical Protection Convention means the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material done at Vienna and at New York on 3 March 1980, a copy of the English text of which is set out in Schedule 4 to the Nuclear Non‑Proliferation (Safeguards) Act 1987, as amended by the amendments done at Vienna on 8 July 2005.
[2]           After regulation 4
insert
5              Declaration of offence that is not a political offence
                For paragraph (b) of the definition of political offence in section 5 of the Act, an offence mentioned in article 7 of the Physical Protection Convention is declared not to be a political offence in relation to each extradition country mentioned in Schedule 1.
Note
1.       All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See www.frli.gov.au.