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Extradition (Amendment) Act (No. 48 of 1999) - Sect 2

Amendment of Section 7 of the Law, No, 8 of 1977

2. Section 7 of the Extradition Law, No, 8 of 1977 (hereinafter referred to as the "principal enactment") is hereby amended in subsection (4) of that section by the substitution for all the words from "include" to the end of that subsection of the following :-
"include-
(b) an offence which, under the terms of the extradition arrangement made by the Government of Sri Lanka with the requesting treaty state, is not regarded as a political offence ;
(c) an offence within the scope of an international convention relating to the suppression of international crime to which Sri Lanka and the requesting designated commonwealth country or treaty state are contracting parties and which obliges contracting parties to prosecute or grant extradition for such offence ; and
(d)any related offence described in subsection (3) of section 6.".


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