PART V
TRIAL, DEFENCE, VERDICT, &c.

26. Punishment of person attempting to commit felony or misdemeanour, offence not being completed.

If, on the trial of any person charged with any felony or misdemeanour, it appears to the jury, upon the attempting evidence, that the defendant did not complete the offence charged, but that he was guilty only of an attempt to commit the same, such person shall not, by reason thereof, be entitled to be acquitted, but the jury shall be at liberty to return, as their verdict, that the defendant is not guilty of the felony or misdemeanour charged, but is guilty of an attempt to commit the same ; and thereupon such person shall be liable to be punished in the same manner as if he had been convicted on an indictment for attempting to commit the particular felony or misdemeanour charged in the indictment.

5. Extradition Proceedings.

For the purpose of the Extradition Act, all powers vested in and acts authorized or required to be done by any person thereunder in relation to the surrender of fugitive criminals under the Extradition Acts. 1870 and 1873 of the United Kingdom and any Acts amending or substituted for those Acts, hereinafter called "the United Kingdom Acts", shall and may be done in relation to any offence of genocide, any attempt or conspiracy to commit such offence and any direct or excitement to commit such an offence and for the purposes of the application of the Extradition Act in so far as it relates to the United Kingdom Acts and such United Kingdom Acts shall be deemed in relation to any proceedings within Antigua and Barbuda to include the offence of genocide and any attempt of conspiracy to commit such an offence and any direct and public excitement to commit such an offence as if such offences were stated as extraditable offences in the United Kingdom Acts.

PART VI
SPECIAL CASES

25. (2) It shall not be an objection to any proceedings against a person under this Act in respect of an offence which, if committed in Antigua and Barbuda, would be punishable as an offence of genocide or as an attempt, conspiracy or incitement to commit such an offence that under the law in force at the time when and in the place where he is alleged to have committed the act of which he is accused or of which he was convicted he have been punished for it.