Temporary transfer of persons in custody for purposes of identification or for obtaining testimony or other forms of assistance - national procedures for ICC proceedings

Canada

Canada - Extradition Act 1999 (2005)

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EXTRADITION FROM CANADA

TEMPORARY SURRENDER


66. Time limits

(2) An order of temporary surrender is subject to the time limits set out in subsections 40(1) and (5) and paragraph 41(1)(c).

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66. Assurances

(3) The Minister may not order temporary surrender under subsection (1) unless the extradition partner gives an assurance that the person will remain in custody while temporarily surrendered to the extradition partner and

(a) in the case of temporary surrender for a trial, that the person will be returned within 30 days after the completion of the trial, unless a relevant extradition agreement provides for another time limit; and
(b) in the case of temporary surrender for an appeal, that the person will be returned within 30 days after the completion of the proceedings for which the presence of the person was required, unless a relevant extradition agreement provides for another time limit.

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EXTRADITION FROM CANADA

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66. Time limit

(4) The Minister may require the extradition partner to give an assurance that the person will be returned no later than a specified date or that the person will be returned on request of the Minister.

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66. Assurances in extradition agreements

(5) Any assurance referred to in subsections (3) and (4) that is included in a relevant extradition agreement need not be repeated as a specific assurance.

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TEMPORARY SURRENDER


66. Final surrender after temporary surrender

(6) A person shall, subject to subsection (7), be surrendered to the extradition partner without a further request for extradition after the person

(a) has been temporarily surrendered;
(b) has been convicted by the extradition partner and had a term of imprisonment imposed on them;
(c) has been returned to Canada under subsection (4); and
(d) has finished serving the portion of the sentence that they were serving in custody in Canada at the time of the temporary surrender, unless the Minister orders that they be surrendered earlier.

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66. No final surrender if circumstances warrant

(7) The Minister may, in circumstances that the Minister considers appropriate, revoke the surrender order and order the discharge of the person.

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66. Notice

(8) The authority who has custody of the person to be surrendered under subsection (6) shall give the Minister reasonable notice of the time when the portion of the person’s sentence to be served in custody is to expire.

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EXTRADITION FROM CANADA

TEMPORARY SURRENDER


66. Final surrender when Canadian sentence expires

(9) When the sentence that the person is serving in Canada expires during the period during which the person is temporarily surrendered to an extradition partner, the surrender is considered to be a final surrender.

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TEMPORARY SURRENDER


66. Waiver of return

(10) The Minister may, after consultation with the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness or the appropriate provincial minister responsible for corrections, waive the return of the person by the extradition partner.

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EXTRADITION FROM CANADA

TEMPORARY SURRENDER


66. Final surrender despite subsection 3(3)

(11) A person may be surrendered under subsection (6) even if the term of imprisonment imposed by the extradition partner, or the portion of the term remaining to be served, is less than that required by subsection 3(3).
1999, c. 18, s. 66; 2005, c. 10, s. 34.

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EXTRADITION FROM CANADA

TEMPORARY SURRENDER

67. Order for surrender

An order of surrender prevails over a prior warrant or other order under which the person to whom it applies is otherwise detained in Canada or at liberty under terms and conditions.

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EXTRADITION FROM CANADA

TEMPORARY SURRENDER

68. Calculation of sentence

For the purposes of calculating a sentence that a person to whom an order of temporary surrender applies is serving in Canada at the time of the temporary surrender, the person

(a) is credited with any time that is served in custody outside Canada under a temporary surrender order; and
(b) remains eligible for remission in accordance with the laws of the correctional system under which the person was serving the sentence in Canada.

Rome Statute

Article 93 Other forms of cooperation

1. States Parties shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Part and under procedures of national law, comply with requests by the Court to provide the following assistance in relation to investigations or prosecutions:

(f) The temporary transfer of persons as provided in paragraph 7;

7.

(a) The Court may request the temporary transfer of a person in custody for purposes of identification or for obtaining testimony or other assistance. The person may be transferred if the following conditions are fulfilled:

(i) The person freely gives his or her informed consent to the transfer; and

(ii) The requested State agrees to the transfer, subject to such conditions as that State and the Court may agree.

(b) The person being transferred shall remain in custody. When the purposes of the transfer have been fulfilled, the Court shall return the person without delay to the requested State.