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THE EXTRADITION ACTS.
Act of 1873. certify at the foot of the depositions so taken that such evidence was taken before him, and shall transmit the same to the Secretary of State; such evidence may be taken in the presence or absence of the person charged, if any, and the fact of such presence or absence shall be stated in such deposition.
Explanation of sect. 16 of Act of 1870.
Explanation of diplomatic representative and consul.
Addition to list of crimes in schedule.
Hearing case elsewhere than at Bow Street.
Any person may, after payment or tender to him of a reasonable sum for his costs and expenses in this behalf, be compelled, for the purposes of this section, to attend and give evidence and answer questions and produce documents, in like manner and subject to the like conditions as he may in the case of a charge preferred for an indictable offence.
Every person who wilfully gives false evidence before a Police Magistrate or Justice of the Peace under this section shall be guilty of perjury.
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply in the case of any criminal matter of a political character.
6. The jurisdiction conferred by section 16 of the principal Act on a Stipendiary Magistrate, and a Sheriff or Sheriff Substitute, shall be deemed to be in addition to, and not in derogation or exclusion of the jurisdiction of the Police Magistrate.
7. For the purposes of the principal Act and this Act a diplomatic representative of a foreign State shall be deemed to include any person recognised by the Secretary of State as a Consul-General of that State, and a Consul or Vice-Consul shall be deemed to include any person recognised by the Governor of a British possession as a consular officer of a foreign State.
2. The principal Act shall be construed as if there were included in the first schedule to that Act the list of crimes contained in the schedule of this Act.
[for schedule, see additions to schedule of 33 & 34 Vict. c. 52; p. 130.]
ACT OF 1895-58 & 59 VICT. c. 33.
An Act to amend the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, so far as respects the Magistrate by whom and the place in which the case may be heard and the Criminal held in custody.
[6th July, 1895.]
1.-(1) Where a fugitive criminal has been apprehended in pursuance of a warrant under s. 8 of the Extradition Act, 1870, and a Secretary of State on representation made by or on behalf of the criminal is of opinion that his removal for the purpose of his case being heard at Bow Street will be dangerous to his life or prejudicial to his health, the