Criminal Justice (Illicit Traffic by Sea) Act 2003

Capital punishment.

22.—Where—

(a) a Convention state which is a party to the Agreement has requested, in the exercise of its preferential jurisdiction, the surrender of a person who has been arrested under Article 10.1 of the Agreement for an offence, and

(b) the offence is punishable by death under the law of the Convention state,

the surrender of the person shall be refused unless that state gives such assurances as the Minister considers sufficient that the death penalty will not be carried out.