1Extradition (Currency) Regulations 2009

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Extradition (Currency) Regulations 20091

Select Legislative Instrument 2009 No. 259

I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Extradition Act 1988.

Dated 8 October 2009

QUENTIN BRYCE

Governor-General

By Her Excellency’s Command

BRENDAN O’CONNOR

Minister for Home Affairs

1 Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Extradition (Currency) Regulations 2009.

2 Commencement

These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

3 Repeal

The Extradition (Currency) Regulations are repealed.

4 Definitions

In these Regulations:

Act means the Extradition Act 1988.

Convention means the International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency and the protocol to that Convention, a copy of the English text of each of which is set out in the Schedule to the Crimes (Currency) Act 1981.

5 Extradition countries

For the definition of extradition country in section 5 of the Act, a country, or a colony, territory or protectorate of a country, for which the Convention is in force is an extradition country.

Note 1 For when the Convention enters into force for a State, see Articles 25 and 26 of the Convention in the Schedule to the Crimes (Currency) Act 1981.

Note 2 The countries for which the Convention is currently in force are listed on the United Nations website at http://www.un.org.

6 Application of the Act

The Act applies, subject to the Convention, to an extradition country mentioned in regulation 5.

Note

Note: 1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See http://www.frli.gov.au.