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Offences Against Aircraft Act (No. 24 of 1982) - Sect 25

Special Provision relating to extradition

25.
(1) For the resolution of doubts, it is hereby declared Special that where a request is made under the Extradition Law, relating to No. 8 of 1977, for the extradition of a person accused of an offence referred to in this Part of the Act and alleged to have been committed at any time after July 3, 1978, such offence is, for the purposes of the Extradition Law, No. 8 of 1977, an extraditable offence.
(2) Nothing in section 7 (3) of the Extradition Law, No. 8 of 1977, shall apply to, or in relation to, a person for whose extradition a request has been made by a treaty state under that Law if there is provision in the law of that state for securing, or if the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister in charge of the subject of Foreign Affairs certifies that the Government of that state has given an undertaking, that such person will not be arrested, detained, remanded or otherwise dealt with in that state for or in respect of any offence committed before his extradition, other than
(a) the offence in respect of which the request for extradition has been made;
(b) any lesser offence proved by the facts established before the court of committal; or
(c) any other offence, being an extraditable offence in respect of which the Government of Sri Lanka may consent to his being so dealt with.


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