Extradition

Barbados

Barbados - Extradition Act 1980

Part 4 Extradition from Other States

Article 43 Requisition to return fugitive to Barbados

Where a person who is accused or convicted of an extraditable crime

(a) is, or is suspected to be in, or arriving in, or to be within or arriving within, the jurisdiction of, a Commonwealth country, or

(b) is, or is suspected to be in, or within the jurisdiction of, a foreign state,

the Attorney General may make a requisition to that country or state for the surrender of that person, hereinafter in this Part referred to as an “offender”.

Part 4 Extradition from Other States

Article 44 Returning offender to Barbados

When an offender is surrendered by a Commonwealth country or a foreign state, the offender may be brought into Barbados and delivered to the proper authorities to be dealt with according to law.

Schedule

Description of Offence

2. An offence against the law relating to genocide.

Schedule

Description of Offences

10. Kidnapping, abduction or false imprisonment, or dealing in slaves.

Rome Statute

Article 102 Use of terms

For the purposes of this Statute:

(b) "extradition" means the delivering up of a person by one State to another as provided by treaty, convention or national legislation.