Schedule 12 - Extradition
Police and Justice Bill
12:15 pm
Derek Conway (Old Bexley and Sidcup, Conservative)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 151, in schedule 12, page 110, line 13, leave out ‘19A’ and insert ‘19B’.
No. 152, in schedule 12, page 110, line 31, at end insert—
‘19BForum
If the conduct disclosed by the request was committed partly in the United Kingdom, the judge shall not order the extradition of the person unless it appears, in the light of all the circumstances, that it would be in the interests of justice that the person should be tried in the category 1 territory.’.
No. 155, in schedule 12, page 115, line 18, at end insert—
‘Bars to extradition
6ASection 79 (bars to extradition) is amended as follows—
(a)after subsection (1)(d) there is inserted—
“(e)forum”; and
(b)in subsection (2) leave out “83” and insert “83A”.’.
No. 156, in schedule 12, page 115, line 18, at end insert
‘Forum
6BAfter section 83 there is inserted—
“83AForum
If the conduct constituting the offence was committed partly in the United Kingdom, the judge shall not order the extradition of the person unless it appears, in the light of all the circumstances, that it would be in the interest of justice that the person should be tried in the category 2 territory”.’.