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5 WARRANT FOR RETURN TO REQUESTING COUNTRY

(FUGITIVE OFFENDERS ACT, 1967, s. 9(1).)

To the Superintendent of the Fox Hill Prison, to the Commissioner of Police and to every peace officer.

Whereas a request has been made to the Governor-General by or on behalf of ........................................ for the return to that country of A. B. (hereinafter called the prisoner) who is accused [or alleged to be unlawfully at large after conviction] of the offence[s] of......................................................................................

And whereas a Chief Magistrate [or a Stipendiary and Circuit Magistrate], being satisfied that the evidence given before him would be sufficient to warrant the prisoner’s trial for that/those offence[s] [or the offence[s] of .........................] if it/they had been committed in The Bahamas [or that the prisoner had been convicted of that/those offence[s] [or the offence[s] of ..................] and appeared to be unlawfully at large], committed the prisoner to the Fox Hill Prison on the ............... day of ....................., 19 ........, to await his/her return to ..................................................................

And whereas the prisoner has not been discharged from custody by order of the Supreme Court:

And whereas the return of the prisoner as aforesaid is not otherwise prohibited as mentioned in subsection (1) of section 9 of the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1967:

Now Therefore it is hereby ordered that the prisoner be returned to ........................ in respect of the offences) for which he/she was committed to custody by the Chief Magistrate (or Stipendiary and Circuit Magistrate)

Dated this ................. day of ................................, 19 ........... Governor-General

FUGITIVE OFFENDERS ACT, 1967 (COMMENCEMENT No. 1) ORDER, 1967

Made ................................. 16th August, 1967 In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section

22 of the Fugitive Offenders Act, 19678, I hereby make the following Order —

1. Subject to the next following Article, the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 shall come into force —

8 1967 c. 68.

S.I. 4/1968 1967 No. 1256 (c. 23) (U.K.)

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(a) on 25th August 1967, for the purposes of any provision thereof conferring power on Her Majesty to make an Order in Council; and

(b) on 1st September 1967, for the purposes of any other provision thereof.

2. (1) Nothing in Article 1 of this Order shall apply in relation to Southern Rhodesia.

(2) Nothing in Article 1(b) of this Order shall bring any provision of the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 other than section 18(2) (powers of local legislatures) into force in relation to any country to which Her Majesty is empowered by paragraph (c) of section 2(2) of the said Act (definition of “United Kingdom dependency”) to apply the said section 2(2).

3. This Order may be cited as the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1967.

Denis Healey, One of Her

Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State.

Whitehall 16th August, 1967.

FUGITIVE OFFENDERS ACT (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1968 (SECTION 22)

[Commencement 22nd February, 1968] 1. This Order may be cited as the Fugitive

Offenders Act (Commencement) Order, 1968. 2. The 12th day of February, 1968, is hereby

appointed as the date on which all the provisions of the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1967 as extended to The Bahamas and set out in the Schedule to the Fugitive Offenders (Bahama Islands) Order, 1967, other than section 22 thereof, shall come into force.

S.I. 16/1968

Title.

Commencement.