6. Amendment to Extradition Law,
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The Extradition Law No. 8 of 1977 is hereby amended by the insertion immediately before Part B of the
Schedule to that Law, of the following item :—
“(44) Hostage taking.”
Where a request is made under the Extradition Law,
No. 8 of 1977, by or on behalf of a Convention State, for the extradition of a person accused or convicted of an offence falling within the description set out in the Schedule to this
Act, the Extradition Law, No. 8 of 1977 shall, in its application to such request, have effect as if for the words “race, religion, nationality or political opinions” appearing in paragraphs (5)
and {c) of subsection (1) of section 7 of that Law, there were substituted the words “race, religion, nationality, ethnic origins or political opinions”.
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