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Section 9: Power of magistrate to issue warrant of arrest in certain cases.

The Extradition Act, 1962Central Act · Act 34 of 1962

(1) Where it appears to any magistrate that a person within the local limits of his jurisdiction, is a fugitive criminal of a foreign State * * * , he may, if he thinks fit, issue a warrant for the arrest of that person on such information and on such evidence as would, in his opinion, justify the issue of a warrant if the offence of which the person is accused or has been convicted had been committed within the local limits of his jurisdiction.

(2) The magistrate shall forthwith report the issue of a warrant under sub-section (1) to the Central Government and shall forward the information, and the evidence or certified copies thereof to that Government.

(3) A person arrested on a warrant issued under sub-section (1) shall not be detained for more than three months unless within that period the magistrate receives from the Central Government an order made with reference to such person under section 5.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Extradition Act, 1962
Section9
Marginal notePower of magistrate to issue warrant of arrest in certain cases.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • omitted, Act 66 of 1993. . The words "or commonwealth country" omitted by Act 66 of 1993, s. 3 (w.e.f. 18-12-1993).

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