SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Provisions deriving from Extradition Act 1870 and associated enactments

Crimes committed at sea

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1

Where the crime in respect of which the surrender of a fugitive criminal is sought was committed on board any vessel or hovercraft on the high seas which comes into any port of the United Kingdom, the following provisions shall have effect—

a

this Schedule shall be construed as if references to any stipendiary magistrate in England and Wales, to any sheriff in Scotland or to any resident magistrate in Northern Ireland, were substituted for the references to the metropolitan magistrate except the reference in paragraph 11 above;

b

the criminal may be committed to any prison to which the person committing him has power to commit persons accused of the like crime;

c

if the fugitive criminal is apprehended on a warrant issued without the order of the Secretary of State, he shall be brought before the stipendiary magistrate, sheriff or resident magistrate who issuedthe warrant, or who has jurisdiction in the port where the vessel lies, or in the place nearest to that port.

2

The jurisdiction conferred by sub-paragraph (1) above on a stipendiary magistrate, sheriff or resident magistrate, shall be deemed to be in addition to, and not in derogation or exclusion of, the jurisdiction of the metropolitan magistrate.