AI-assisted research summary: This amendment adds money laundering and certain terrorist financing offences to extraditable offences and requires the Attorney General to keep a Register of Extradition Cases.
[5th March 2021] Supplement to Official Gazette 335 EXTRADITION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2021 (Act 4 of 2021) I assent Wavel Ramkalawan President 5th March, 2021 AN ACT to amend the Extradition Act (Cap. 78). ENACTED by the President and the National Assembly. Short title and commencement 1. This Act may be cited as the Extradition (Amendment) Act, 2021. 336 Supplement to Official Gazette [5th March 2021] Amendments to Cap. 78 2. The Extradition Act (Cap. 78) is amended as follows — (a) in section 2, — (i) after the definition of “Interpol”, the following definition shall be added — “Minister” means the Minister responsible for legal affairs;’; (ii) after the definition of “person committed”, the following definition shall be added — ‘ “terrorist financing activities” shall have the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act, 2020 (Act 5 of 2020);’; (iii) in section 4, after subsection (4), the following subsection shall be added — “(5) Notwithstanding any other law in force, — (a) the offence of money laundering under section 3 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act, 2020 (Act 5 of 2020); (b) an offence relating to terrorist financing activities as defined under section 2 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act, 2020 (Act 5 of 2020; (c) an offence relating to terrorist financing activities under section 5 of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (Cap. 179), [5th March 2021] Supplement to Official Gazette 337 shall be extraditable offences for the purposes of this Act.”; (iv) in section 17, after subsection (3) the following new section shall be added — “(4) The Attorney General shall maintain a case management system in manual and electronic form to be known as “Register of Extradition Cases”.”. (b) in the First Schedule, after serial number 29, the following serial number and description of the extraditable offence shall be added — “(30) Offence of money laundering under section 3 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act, 2020 (Act 5 of 2020) and an offence relating to terrorist financing activities under section 5 of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (Cap. 179).”. I certify that this is a correct copy of the Bill which was passed by the National Assembly on 2nd March, 2021. Mrs. Tania Isaac Clerk to the National Assembly