Extradition (Amendment) Act, 1994
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Amendment of Extradition (European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism) Act, 1987. |
2.—Section 3 (certain offences not to be regarded as political offences) of the Extradition (European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism) Act, 1987 , shall be amended— | |
(a) in subsection (3) (a), by the substitution of the following subparagraphs for subparagraph (vi): | ||
“(vi) any serious offence (other than an offence to which subparagraphs (i) to (v) apply)— | ||
(I) involving an act of violence against the life, physical integrity or liberty of a person, or | ||
(II) involving an act against property if the act created a collective danger for persons, | ||
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(vii) any offence of attempting or conspiring to commit any of the foregoing offences.”, | ||
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(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3): | ||
“(3A) Without prejudice to subsection (3), this section applies to any offence which, if the act constituting the offence took place in the State, would be an offence specified in the First Schedule to the Extradition (Amendment) Act, 1994.”. |