126
Act of 1870.
Jurisdiction as to crimes committed at
sea.
*
Proceedings
against fugitive
criminals in
THE EXTRADITION ACTS.
(3) If the certificate of or judicial document stating the fact of conviction purports to be certified by a Judge, Magistrate, or officer of the foreign State where the conviction took place; and
if in every case the warrants, depositions, statements, copies, certificates, and judicial documents (as the case may be) are authenticated by the oath of some witness or by being sealed with the official seal of the Minister of Justice, or some other Minister of State and all Courts of Justice, Justices, and Magistrates shall take judicial notice of such official seal, and shall admit the documents so authenticated by it to be received in evidence without further proof.
Crimes committed at sea.
16. Where the crime in respect of which the surrender of a fugitive criminal is sought was committed on board any vessel on the high seas which comes into any port of the United Kingdom, the following provisions shall have effect:---
(1) The Act shall be construed as if any Stipendiary Magistrate in England or Ireland, and any Sheriff or Sheriff Substitute in Scotland, were substituted for the Police Magistrate throughout this Act, except the part relating to the execution of the warrant of the Police Magistrate;
(2) The criminal may be committed to any prison to which the person committing him has power to commit persons accused of the like crime:
(3) If the fugitive criminal is apprehended on a warrant issued without the order of a Secretary of State, he shall be brought before the Stipendiary Magistrate, Sheriff, or Sheriff Substitute who issued the warrant, or who has jurisdiction in the port where the vessel lies, or in the place nearest to that port.
Fugitive criminals in British Possessions.
17. This Act when applied by Order in Council, shall unless it is otherwise provided by such Order, extend to every British possession in the same manner as if throughout this Act the British possession were substituted for the United Kingdom or England, as the case may require, but with the following modifications; namely—
British possessions.
(1) The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal who is in or suspected of being in a British possession may be made to the Governor of that British possession by any person recognised by that Governor as a Consul General, Consul, or Vice-Consul, or (if the fugitive criminal has escaped from a colony or dependency of the foreign State on behalf of which the requisition is made) as the Governor of such colony or dependency:
(2) No warrant of a Secretary of State shall be required, and all powers vested in or acts authorised or required to be done under this
*This section is explained by 36 & 37 Vict. c. 60 s. 6.
126
Act of 1870.
Jurisdiction as to crimes committed at
sea.
*
Proceedings
criminals in
THE EXTRADITION ACTS.
(3) If the certificate of or judicial document stating the fact of con- viction purports to be certified by a Judge, Magistrate, or officer of the foreign State where the conviction took place; and
if in every case the warrants, depositions, statements, copies, certifi- cates, and judicial documents (as the case may be) are authenticated by the oath of some witness or by being sealed with the official seal of the Minister of Justice, or some other Minister of State and all Courts of Justice, Justices, and Magistrates shall take judicial notice of such official seal, and shall admit the documents so authenticated by it to be received in evidence without further proof.
Crimes committed at sea.
16. Where the crime in respect of which the surrender of a fugitive criminal is sought was committed on board any vessel on the high seas which comes into any port of the United Kingdom, the following provisions shall have effect:---
(1) The Act shall be construed as if any Stipendiary Magistrate in England or Ireland, and any Sheriff or Sheriff Substitute in Scotland, were substituted for the Police Magistrate throughout this Act, except the part relating to the execution of the warrant of the Police Magistrate;
(2) The criminal may be committed to any prison to which the person committing him has power to commit persons accused of the like crime: (3) If the fugitive criminal is apprehended on a warrant issued without the order of a Secretary of State, he shall be brought before the Stipendiary Magistrate, Sheriff, or Sheriff Substitute who issued the warrant, or who has jurisdiction in the port where the vessel lies. or in the place nearest to that port.
Fugitive criminals in British Possessions.
17. This Act when applied by Order in Council, shall unless it is other- as to fugitive wise provided by such Order, extend to every British possession in the same manner as if throughout this Act the British possession were substituted for the United Kingdom or England, as the case may require, but with the following modifications; namely—
British
poss-
essions.
(1) The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal who is in or suspected of being in a British possession may be made to the Governor of that British possession by any person recoguised by that Governor as a Consul General, Consul, or Vice-Consul, or (if the fugitive criminal has escaped from a colony or dependency of the foreign State on behalf of which the requisition is made) as the Governor of such colony or dependency:
(2) No warrant of a Secretary of State shall be required, and all powers vested in or acts authorised or required to be done under this
*This section is explained by 36 & 37 Vict. c. 60 s. 6.
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