Extradition Act, 1965

Acceptance of documents by Commissioner of Garda Síochána.

54.—(1) Where the Commissioner receives a document appearing to be a warrant issued by a judicial authority in a place in relation to which this Part applies, together with an affidavit verifying the signature on the warrant and appearing to be sworn before a person duly authorised to take affidavits by the law of that place, the Commissioner may, without further evidence, accept the document as being such warrant and as having been duly signed and issued by a judicial authority in accordance with the law of that place and as evidence that the offence for which the warrant is issued is an offence under the law of that place and that the affidavit has been duly sworn before a person so authorised as aforesaid.

(2) A certificate, appearing to be given by the authority or the clerk or other officer of the authority by which a warrant was issued, that the offence to which it relates is, by the law of the place concerned, an indictable offence and not also a summary offence, or that it is a summary offence punishable by a specified maximum period of imprisonment may, without further evidence, be accepted by the Commissioner as evidence of the matters so certified.

(3) A document appearing to be a copy of a summons to which paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 51 relates and to be certified by the authority by which it was issued or by the clerk or other officer of that authority, a document appearing to be a copy of an affidavit or other declaration of service of any such summons and an affidavit or other written statement purporting to have been sworn by the clerk or other officer of the court before which a person is required to appear, whether in answer to any such summons or in pursuance of a recognisance or on any date to which the proceedings for the trial of the offence have been adjourned, that that person has failed so to appear may, without further evidence, be accepted by the Commissioner as evidence of such summons, service and failure, respectively.