Extradition Act 1908
Extradition Act 1908
Extradition Act 1908
Public Act |
1908 No 58 |
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Date of assent |
4 August 1908 |
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Contents
An Act to consolidate certain Enactments of the General Assembly relating to the Surrender of Fugitive Criminals.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
(1.)
The Short Title of this Act is “The Extradition Act, 1908.”
Enactments consolidated.
(2.)
This Act is a consolidation of the enactments mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and with respect to those enactments the following provisions shall apply:—
Savings.
(a.)
All offices, appointments, rules, orders, instruments, and generally all acts of authority which originated under any of the said enactments, and are subsisting or in force on the coming into operation of this Act, shall enure for the purposes of this Act as fully and effectually as if they had originated under the corresponding provisions of this Act, and accordingly shall, where necessary, be deemed to have so originated.
(b.)
All matters and proceedings commenced under any such enactment, and pending or in progress on the coming into operation of this Act, may be continued, completed, and enforced under this Act.
2 Imperial Extradition Acts to be in force in New Zealand.
1874, No. 83, sec. 2
The provisions of the Imperial Acts the Short Titles whereof are “The Extradition Act, 1870,”
and “The Extradition Act, 1873,”
respectively (hereinafter called “the said Acts”
) shall be in force and apply in New Zealand subject to the modifications and alterations hereinafter mentioned.
3 Appointment of Commissioners.
Ibid, sec. 3
The Governor may from time to time appoint such Judges of District Courts or Magistrates as he thinks fit to be Commissioners for the purposes of this Act.
4 Powers of Commissioners.
1874, No. 83, sec. 4
The powers by the said Acts vested in, and the acts authorised or required by the said Acts to be done by, a Police Magistrate shall, as regards the surrender of a fugitive criminal within or suspected to be within New Zealand, be exercised or done by any one of such Commissioners.
5 Fugitive criminals may be committed to prison.
Ibid, sec. 5
“Any public prison in New Zealand”
shall be deemed to be substituted for “a prison in Middlesex,”
and shall be a prison for the purposes of the said Acts.
Schedule Enactments consolidated.
1874, No. 83.—“The New Zealand Extradition Act, 1874.”