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EXTRADITION ACT 1870 - SECT 16



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.This 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.


Criminal surrendered by foreign state not triable for previous crime.



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