Order Applying Part II to the Kingdom of Greece

Legal Notice 210 of 1969

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LAWS OF KENYA

EXTRADITION (CONTIGUOUS AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES) ACT

ORDER APPLYING PART II TO THE KINGDOM OF GREECE

LEGAL NOTICE 210 OF 1969

  • Published in Kenya Gazette Vol. LXXI—No. 43 on 3 October 1969
  • Commenced on 3 October 1969
  1. [Revised by 24th Annual Supplement (Legal Notice 221 of 2023) on 31 December 2022]
WHEREAS an agreement has been made between the Government of Kenya and the Royal Hellenic Government that, pending the conclusion of a new Agreement between the two Governments, the Extradition Treaty concluded on 24th September, 1910, between Greece and the United Kingdom, should continue to be applied between Kenya and the Kingdom of Greece:AND WHEREAS the terms of the said Extradition Treaty are set forth in the Schedule to this Order;NOW THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Attorney-General by section 3 of the Extradition (Contiguous and Foreign Countries) Act, it is hereby declared that Part II of the said Act shall apply in the case of the Kingdom of Greece.
 

SCHEDULE

Article 1

The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other, under certain circumstances and conditions stated in the present Treaty, those persons who being accused or convicted of any of the crimes or offences enumerated in Article 2, committed in the territory of the one Party, shall be found within the territory of the other Party.

Article 2

Extradition shall be granted for the following crimes or offences when provided for by the laws of the requisitioning State and of the State applied to—
1.Murder (including parricide, infanticide, poisoning), or attempt or conspiracy to murder, manslaughter.
2.Kidnapping and false imprisonment.
3.Abandoning or exposing children below the age of seven years.
4.Abortion.
5.Abduction of person under age.
6.Bigamy.
7.Malicious wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm with premeditation, when such acts cause death (without the intention of killing) or disease or incapacity for personal labour lasting for more than three months, or serious mutilation, or the loss or disablement of a member or organ, or other permanent infirmity.
8.Threats by letter or otherwise with intent to extort.
9.Perjury.
10.Arson.
11.Burglary, housebreaking, larceny, embezzlement, fraudulent misappropriation of property, obtaining property by false pretences.
12.Fraud and embezzlement by public official; bribery of public officials.
13.Receiving any chattel, money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to have been embezzled, stolen or feloniously obtained.
14.Counterfeiting or altering money, or knowingly bringing into circulation counterfeited or altered money.
15.Knowingly making without lawful authority any instrument, tool, or engine adapted and intended for the counterfeiting of the coin of the realm.
16.Forgery by writing, or uttering what is forged.
17.Fraudulent bankruptcy.
18.Malicious injury to any house or building calculated to cause danger to life or property.
19.Rape.Participation in the aforesaid crimes is also included, provided that such participation is punishable by the laws of the demanding State and of the State applied to.

Article 3

No Greek subject shall be surrendered by the Government of His Majesty the King of the Hellenes to the Government of Kenya, and no subject of Kenya shall be surrendered by his Government to the Government of His Majesty the King of the Hellenes.

Article 4

Extradition shall not take place if the person claimed on the part of the Government of Kenya, or of the Government of His Majesty the King of the Hellenes, has already been tried, discharged, or punished, or is waiting trial in the territory of Kenya or in Greece, respectively, for the crime or offence for which his extradition is demanded.If the person claimed on the part of the Government of His Majesty the King of the Hellens, or of the Government of Kenya, should be awaiting trial or undergoing sentence for any other crime or offence in the territory of Greece or in Kenya, respectively, his extradition shall be deferred until after he has been discharged, whether by acquittal or on expiration of sentence.

Article 5

Extradition shall not be granted if exemption from prosecution or punishment has been acquired by lapse of time, according to the laws of the State applied to.Neither shall it be granted in the case of persons convicted by default, or otherwise, unless the sentence inflicted be at least one year’s imprisonment.

Article 6

The person claimed shall not be surrendered if the crime in respect of which extradition is applied for be deemed by the party to whom application is made to be a political offence, or connected with such an offence, or if the person claimed proves that the application for extradition has in fact been made with a view to try or to punish him for an offence of this character.

Article 7

A person whose surrender has been granted shall in no case be detained or tried in the State to which the surrender has been made for any other crime, or on account of any other matters than those for which the extradition shall have taken place.This stipulation does not apply to crimes committed after the extradition.The person who has been claimed, and whose extradition shall have been granted, shall not be tried or punished for any political offence committed prior to his extradition nor for any matter connected with such an offence, nor for any crimes or offences not provided for in the present Treaty.

Article 8

The requisition for extradition shall be made through the Diplomatic Agents of the High Contracting Parties respectively.The requisition for the extradition of an accused person must be accompanied by a warrant of arrest issued by the competent judicial authority setting forth clearly the nature of the crime or offence with which the person claimed is charged. The said warrant shall also be accompanied by such evidence as, according to the laws of the place where the accused is found, would justify his arrest if the crime had been committed there.If the requisition relates to a person already convicted, it must be accompanied by a copy of the judgment passed on the convicted person by the competent Court of the State that makes the requisition for extradition.A sentence passed in contumaciam is not to be deemed a conviction, but a person so sentenced may be dealt with as an accused person.In the event of any doubt arising as to whether the crime or offence, in respect of which the prosecution has been instituted, comes within the stipulations of the present Treaty, the Government applied to shall be at liberty to require all such further information as it may consider necessary or of assistance in order to form an opinion, after which it shall decide what action shall be taken on the demand for extradition.The requisitioning Government, in furnishing such further information to the Government applied to, shall, at the same time, place at the disposal of the latter all such documents as may be necessary or useful in enabling it to form an opinion.

Article 9

In cases of urgency provisional arrest may be effected upon notice being given, by post or telegraph, through the diplomatic channel that one of the documents enumerated in Article 8 has been issued, provided, however, that such notice shall always be given to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the State applied to.Provisional arrest shall be effected in the manner and in accordance with the rules laid down by the Laws of the State applied to. It shall not be maintained if, within a period of one month from the date on which it has been effected, the State applied to has not been furnished with one of the documents specified in Article 8 of the present Treaty.

Article 10

All papers and documents issued by the authorities of the Contracting States which may be produced in virtue of Articles 8 and 13 of the present Treaty must be accompanied by an authenticated translation in the French language.

Article 11

The extradition shall take place only if the evidence be found sufficient, according to the laws of the State applied to, either to justify the committal of the prisoner for trial, in case the crime has been committed in the territory of the same State, or if extradition is claimed in respect of an offence of which the fugitive has been already convicted, to prove that the prisoner is the person convicted, and that the crime of which he has been convicted is one in respect of which extradition could, at the time of such conviction, have been granted by the State applied to.

Article 12

Extradition shall be granted in accordance with the rules laid down by the law of the State applied to.

Article 13

Warrants, depositions, and affirmations, issued or taken in the dominions of one of the High Contracting Parties, and copies of such documents as well as certificates or judicial documents stating the fact of a conviction shall be admitted as valid evidence in the proceedings taken in the dominions of the other party, if they bear the signature or are accompanied by the certificate of a Judge, Magistrate, or officer of the State in which they have been issued or taken, provided that such warrants, depositions, affirmations, copies, certificates, or judicial documents are authenticated, either by the oath of some witness, or by being sealed with the seal of the Minister of Justice, or some other Minister of State.

Article 14

If the accused or sentenced person be not a subject of one of the Contracting Parties, the Government to whom application for extradition is made shall be at liberty to take such action in respect of the application, as it may think fit, and to surrender the person claimed to be tried in the State in which the crime or offence has been committed.Nevertheless, the Government of His Majesty the King of the Hellenes reserves to itself the option of surrendering the person claimed to the State to which he belongs, instead of surrendering him to the State in which the crime or offence has been committed.

Article 15

If a fugitive criminal who has been arrested has not been surrendered and conveyed away within three months after his arrest, or within three months after the decision of the Court upon the return to a writ of habeas corpus in Kenya, he shall be set at liberty.

Article 16

When extradition is granted all articles connected with the crime or offence, or which may serve as proofs of the crime, which are found in the possession of the person claimed at the time of his arrest, or which may be afterwards discovered, shall, if the competent authority of the State applied to so direct, be seized and restored to the requisitioning State.Such restoration shall be carried out, even if extradition be not carried out owing to the escape or death of the person claimed.The rights, however, which third persons, not involved in the prosecution, may have acquired over the said articles are reserved, and the latter shall, should the case arise, be restored to them, free of charge, at the termination of the proceedings.

Article 17

All expenses arising out of an application for extradition, also the costs of the arrest, maintenance, and transport of the person whose extradition shall have been granted, as well as of the dispatch and forwarding of the articles which, by the provisions of Article 16, are to be returned or restored, shall be borne by the requisitioning State and by the State applied to within the limits of their respective territories.The cost of transport or other expenses outside the territory of the State applied to shall be borne by the demanding State.
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31 December 2022 this version
03 October 1969
Published in Kenya Gazette 43
Commenced