Section 635: Extradition shall be an act whereby requested state hands over a foreigner found in its territory to a requesting State in order that he be prosecuted for one or more specified offences of ordinary law or to subject him to a term of imprisonment passed against him after a criminal trial for an offence of ordinary law.

Section 636: Whoever is found in the national territory to be an accomplice to a felony or misdemeanour committed abroad may be tried in Cameroon according to the foreign law and Cameroonian law on condition that the principal act has been established by a final decision emanating from a competent foreign court.

Section 637: Cameroonian courts shall also have jurisdiction to try any one who while abroad, is an accomplice to a felony or misdemeanour committed in Cameroon.

Section 638: Any proceedings brought under sections 636 and 637 shall be null and void to all intents and purposes if:

(a) prosecution is commenced by any person other than the Legal Department which in cases of misdemeanour under Cameroonian law Can only act, if a complaint is brought to it by the injured party or if it receives an official information from the competent authority of the place of commission of the principal act;

(b) the defendant shows that he has been tried abroad for the same acts and final judgment passed, and that if sentenced, he has either served his sentence or has been absolved of it by prescription or by pardon;

(c) the prosecution is barred by amnesty. or by any other cause, according to the law of the state where the acts were committed, or would be so barred according to the laws of Cameroon if the acts had been committed in Cameroon.