Surrender of fugitive to foreign State
12.—(1)  When, under this Part, a Magistrate commits a person (referred to in this section as the prisoner) to prison, or otherwise orders that he be held in custody, to await the warrant of the Minister for his surrender to a foreign State, the Magistrate shall inform the prisoner that he will not be surrendered until after the expiration of the period of 15 days from the date of the committal or order and that, if he asserts that his detention is unlawful, he may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for an Order for Review of Detention.
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(2)  After —
(a)the expiration of the period referred to in subsection (1); or
(b)if, within that period, an application for an Order for Review of Detention is made by the prisoner and the court to which the application is made or, where an appeal is brought from the decision of that court to another court, the other court does not order that the prisoner be released — the expiration of the period of 15 days from the date of the decision of the firstmentioned court or the appellate court, as the case may be,
whichever is the later, the Minister may, in his discretion, if he is satisfied that the prisoner is liable to be surrendered to the foreign State, by warrant in accordance with Form 6 in the Second Schedule or, where the prisoner is held in custody otherwise than at a prison, in accordance with that Form with such variations as are necessary to meet the circumstances of the case, order that the prisoner be delivered into the custody of a person specified in the warrant and be conveyed by that person to a place in the foreign State or within the jurisdiction of, or of a part of, the foreign State and there surrendered to some person appointed by the foreign State to receive him.
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(3)  A warrant issued under subsection (2) may be executed according to its tenor.
(4)  If the prisoner escapes from the custody of the person executing the warrant, he may be retaken in the same manner as a person accused of an offence against the law in force in Singapore may be taken upon an escape from lawful custody.
(5)  Any property in the possession of the prisoner at the time of his apprehension that may be material as evidence in proving the offence to which the requisition for his surrender relates shall, if the Minister so directs, be delivered up with the prisoner on his surrender.