Extradition and Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation Amendment Act 2012 (7 of 2012)

Schedule 2   Amendments relating to extradition

Part 3   Other amendments

Division 7   Technical amendments relating to notices

Extradition Act 1988

58   After subsection 19(4)

Insert:

(4A) If:

(a) the Attorney-General has given a notice (the original notice ) under subsection 16(1) in relation to a person; and

(b) during proceedings conducted in relation to the person under this section, the Attorney-General gives an amended notice under subsection 16A(2) in relation to the person; and

(c) the amended notice specifies one or more extradition offences that were not specified in the original notice; and

(d) the magistrate considers it necessary to give the person and the extradition country time to prepare for the conduct of proceedings under this section in relation to any of those extradition offences;

the magistrate may adjourn the proceedings for such period as the magistrate considers reasonable to allow the person and the extradition country to prepare for the conduct of those proceedings.