CH.91 – 24] CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE

STATUTE LAW OF THE BAHAMAS [Original Service 2001]

FUGITIVE OFFENDERS (DESIGNATED COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES) ORDER, 1970

(SECTIONS 2 and 20) [Commencement 3rd December, 1970]

1. This Order may be cited as the Fugitive Offenders (Designated Commonwealth Countries) Order, 1970.

2. The Cook Islands (being a territory for the external relations of which New Zealand is responsible) are hereby designated for the purposes of section 1 of the Act as a separate country at the request of the Government of New Zealand, and the Schedule to the Fugitive Offenders (Designated Commonwealth Countries) Order, 1968 is hereby amended accordingly.

3. The territory of Papua and New Guinea, Norfolk Island, Australian Antarctic territory, the territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the territory of Christmas Island, the territory of Heard and McDonald Islands and the territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands (being territories for the external relations of which Australia is responsible) shall be treated as part of Australia for the purposes of the Fugitive Offenders (Designated Commonwealth Countries) Order, 1968 (which designates certain Commonwealth countries for the purposes of the Act) and the reference to Australia in the Schedule to that Order shall be construed accordingly.

4. Niue and the Tokelau Islands (being territories for the external relations of which New Zealand is responsible) shall be treated as part of New Zealand for the purposes of the Fugitive Offenders (Designated Commonwealth Countries) Order, 1968, and the reference to New Zealand in the Schedule to that Order shall be construed accordingly.

FUGITIVE OFFENDERS (UNITED KINGDOM DEPENDENCIES) (BAHAMAS) ORDER, 1970

(SECTION 2) [Commencement 2nd April, 1970]

1. This Order may be cited as the Fugitive Offenders (United Kingdom Dependencies) Bahamas Order, 1970.

S.I. 56/1970

Citation.

Cook Islands designated as separate country.

S.I. 73/1668.

Certain territories to be treated as part of Australia.

S.I. 73/1668.

Certain territories to be treated as part of New Zealand.

S.I. 26/1970

Citation.

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2. Subsection (2) of section 2 of the Act (which defines the expression “United Kingdom dependency”) shall apply to the countries specified in Column 1 of the Schedule (being countries outside Her Majesty’s dominions in which Her Majesty has jurisdiction, or over which she extends protection, in right of Her Government in the United Kingdom).

3. In relation to the return of persons to, and in relation to persons returned from, a country specified in Column 1 of the Schedule, other than the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, the Act shall have effect as if for any reference therein to the Governor there were substituted a reference to the person or government specified opposite to the country in question in Column 2 of the said Schedule.

4. In relation to the return of persons to the New Hebrides, the Act shall have effect as if at the end of subsection (1) of section 3 thereof (which defines a relevant offence for the purposes of the Act) there were added the following proviso —

“Provided that an offence of which a person is accused or has been convicted in the New Hebrides shall not be a relevant offence unless he is liable to be tried therefor or, as the case may be, has been convicted thereof, by the High Court of the Western Pacific or by the Joint Court established for the New Hebrides”.

SCHEDULE (Paragraphs 2 and 3)

Country Government or person British Solomon Islands Protectorate

Brunei The Government of Brunei The New Hebrides Her Majesty’s High Commis-

sioner for the Western Pacific or the Resident Commissioner for the New Hebrides acting with his authority.

U.K. dependencies under section 2(2)(c) of Act.

Reference to Governor in Act substituted in relation to countries in Schedule.

Modification of section 3(1) of Act in relation to offences in New Hebrides.