S.L. 276.8 Art. 58Persons serving sentences outside territory where convicted.

(1) This article applies if an arrest warrant is issued in respect of a person by an authority of a scheduled country and the warrant contains the statement referred to in subarticle (2).

(2) The statement is one that -

(a) the person is alleged to be unlawfully at large from a prison in one territory, hereinafter in this article referred to as "the imprisoning territory", in which he was serving a sentence after conviction of an offence specified in the warrant by a court in another territory, hereinafter in this article referred to as "the convicting territory", and

(b) the person was serving the sentence in pursuance of international arrangements for prisoners sentenced in one territory to be repatriated to another territory in order to serve their sentence, and

(c) the warrant is issued with a view to his arrest and extradition to the scheduled country for the purpose of serving a sentence or another form of detention imposed in respect of the offence.

(3) If the scheduled country is either the imprisoning territory or the convicting territory, article 5(6)(a) has effect as if the reference to the statement referred to in subarticle (7) of that article were a reference to the statement referred to in subarticle (2) of this article.

(4) If the scheduled country is the imprisoning territory -

(a) article 5(8)(e) has effect as if "requesting country" read "the convicting territory";

(b) article 12(2) has effect as if "an extraditable offence" read "an extraditable offence in relation to the convicting territory";

(c) article 23(3)(c) and (d) and article 23A(3) have effect as if after the words "a retrial or an appeal”, wherever they occur, there were inserted the words "in the convicting territory";

(d) article 36(5) has effect as if "a scheduled country" read "the convicting territory" and as if "the scheduled country" in both places read "the convicting territory";

(e) article 50(4) has effect as if "a scheduled country" read "the convicting territory" and as if "scheduled country" in both places read "the convicting territory";

(f) article 60(1) has effect as if "a scheduled country" read "the convicting territory";

(g) article 60(2) has effect as if "the scheduled country" in the opening words and paragraphs (a) and (c) read "the convicting territory" and as if "the scheduled country" in paragraph (b) read "the imprisoning territory";

(h) in article 60, subarticles (3), (4), (5) and (6) have effect as if "the scheduled country" in each place read "the convicting territory".

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