Extradition (Commonwealth Territories) Declaration

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Extradition Act

(CHAPTER 103, Section 19)

Extradition (Commonwealth Territories) Declaration

Decl 1

G.N. No. S 425/2007

REVISED EDITION 2009

(31st March 2009)

[15th August 2007]

Citation

1. This Declaration may be cited as the Extradition (Commonwealth Territories) Declaration.

[S 559/2022 wef 01/07/2022]

Declaration of Commonwealth territories

2. The states or territories specified in the Schedule to this Declaration are hereby declared to be Commonwealth territories for the purposes of the Act.

[S 559/2022 wef 01/07/2022]

Modification of Act

3.—(1) The Act (except for Part 6) applies in relation to a country specified in the Schedule that is a non-member of UNTOC as if an UNTOC offence is not an extradition offence.

[S 559/2022 wef 01/07/2022]

(2) In this paragraph —

“non-member of UNTOC” means a state or territory specified in the Schedule that is not —

(a)	a party to UNTOC; or
(b)	a state or territory to which UNTOC applies or is extended;

“serious crime”, “organised criminal group” and “transnational” have the meanings given to them in UNTOC;

“UNTOC” means the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, done at New York on 15 November 2000;

“UNTOC offence” means an offence against the law of a non-member of UNTOC where the act or omission constituting the offence or the equivalent act or omission —

(a)

would, if it took place within the jurisdiction of Singapore, constitute any of the following:

(i)	abetment of a serious crime, where the serious crime is transnational in nature and involves an organised criminal group;
(ii)	criminal conspiracy to commit a serious crime, where the serious crime is transnational in nature and involves an organised criminal group; or

(b)

would be such an offence if the description concerned contained a reference to any intent or state of mind on the part of the person committing the offence, or to any circumstance of aggravation, necessary to constitute the offence.

[S 559/2022 wef 01/07/2022]

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