Notification of competing request

Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Extradition (Commonwealth and Foreign Territories) Act

Extradition (Commonwealth and Foreign Territories)

CHAPTER 12:04

EXTRADITION (COMMONWEALTH AND FOREIGN TERRITORIES) ACT


PART III
EXTRADITION FROM TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

16. Order for return.

(5) The Attorney General may decide to make no order under this section for the return of a person committed in consequence of a request made on behalf of any territory if another request for his return under this Act has been made on behalf of another territory and it appears to the Attorney General, having regard to all the circumstances of the case and in particular—
(a) the relative seriousness of the offences in question;
(b) the date on which each such request was made; and
(c) the nationality or citizenship of the person concerned and his ordinary residence,
that preference should be given to the other request.

(6) Notice of the issue of a warrant under this section shall forthwith be given to the person to be returned thereunder.

Rome Statute

Article 90 Competing requests

1. A State Party which receives a request from the Court for the surrender of a person under article 89 shall, if it also receives a request from any other State for the extradition of the same person for the same conduct which forms the basis of the crime for which the Court seeks the person's surrender, notify the Court and the requesting State of that fact.