Cap. 276 Art. 31Special extraditable offences.

(1) The offences referred to in article 5(1)(e) and (g) of the Criminal Code shall be deemed to have been included as extraditable offences in all extradition treaties made by Malta (or are applicable to Malta) with Convention countries and which extend to, and are binding on, Malta on the date of the coming into force of the Security Service Act.

(2) Where this Act does not apply in the case of any state which is a party to the ''Internationally Protected Persons Convention'' and the ''Taking of Hostages Convention'', the Minister may by order under articles 4 and 7 designate such country as a Commonwealth country under the said article 4 or as a foreign country under article 7, as the case may be and such order shall for the purposes of the said article 7 be deemed to be an arrangement as is mentioned in that article.

(3) When this Act applies to any state by virtue only of an order made under sub-article (2) no application for extradition by that state shall relate to any extradition crimes within the meaning of this Act except offences deemed to be included in the list of extradition crimes pursuant to sub-article (1).

(4) For the purposes of this Act, any act, wherever committed, which is an offence mentioned under this Act and an offence against the law of any state in the case of which that Act is applied by an order under sub-article (2) shall be deemed to be an offence committed within the jurisdiction of that state.

(5) In this article: "Convention countries" means those countries which are contracting parties to the Suppression of Terrorism Convention, the Internationally Protected Persons Convention and to the Taking of Hostages Convention; "Internationally Protected Persons Convention" means the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1973; "Suppression of Terrorism Convention" means the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism done at Strasbourg on the 27th January, 1977; "Taking of Hostages Convention" means the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages opened for signature at New York on the 18th December, 1979.