Part 5 Miscellaneous

Article 32 Transit

(1) Where a person is to be transported in custody from a Commonwealth country through Barbados to another Commonwealth country pursuant to a request for assistance, of the kind referred to in the scheme, by the other Commonwealth country, the person

(a) may be transported through Barbados in the custody of another person; and

(b) if an aircraft or ship by which the person is being transported lands or calls at a place in Barbados, shall be kept in such custody as the Minister directs in writing until the person’s transportation is continued.

(2) Where a person is being held in custody pursuant to a direction under subsection (1)(b) and the person’s transportation is not, in the opinion of the Minister responsible for Justice, continued within a reasonable time, that Minister may direct that the person be transported in custody to the Commonwealth country from which the person was first transported.