Explanatory Notes

Extradition Act 2003

2003 CHAPTER 41

20th November 2003

Territorial Application: Wales

Part 5 .Miscellaneous and General Provisions

Section 196: Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes

557.This section ensures that genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and related offences are included as extradition offences. Conduct that would be punishable in the United Kingdom under any of the provisions listed in subsection (2) amounts to an extradition offence even if it would not have been an offence at the time when and the place where it occurred.