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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-convention-on-extradition-order-1990-amendment-no-3-order-1995/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2703",
  "legislation_title": "The European Convention on Extradition Order 1990 (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-convention-on-extradition-order-1990-amendment-no-3-order-1995",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The European Convention on Extradition Order 1990 (“the 1990 Order”) shall be amended as follows:\n(a) In Part I of Schedule 2 (which names States parties to the Convention), at the appropriate place in the alphabetical order, the following entry shall be inserted—\n“Lithuania”.\n(b) In Schedule 3 (which sets out the reservations and declarations made by States parties to the Convention, the following Part shall be inserted after Part 12—\n“PART 12A\nlithuania\nReservations\nArticle 1\nExtradition shall be granted only under the condition that any person suspected of having committed a crime will not be tried in a special court of the requesting Party.\nThe Republic of Lithuania reserves the right not to grant extradition if the said person, on the grounds of his/her health, age or personal motivation, would be adversely affected by this extradition.\nArticle 3\nThe Republic of Lithuania reserves its right referred to in Article 3 of the Convention to decide in each particular case whether acts referred to in Article 3, paragraph 3, of the Convention are regarded as being a political offence.\nDeclarations\nArticle 6\nThe term “nationals” means persons having Lithuanian nationality under the Law of the Lithuanian nationality (Citizenship Law). According to Article 6 of the Law on Lithuanian nationality (Citizenship Law), the Republic of Lithuania does not extradite its nationals to foreign countries. All requests for extradition of Lithuanian nationals shall be refused.\nArticle 12\nWritten requests for extradition can be exchanged between the Ministry of Justice or the Prosecutor General’s Office of the requesting Party and the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice or Prosecutor General’s Office. The use of diplomatic channels is not excluded.\nArticle 21\nIn no case shall the Republic of Lithuania grant transit in respect of Lithuanian nationals.\nArticle 23\nRequests for extradition (including documents in support of the request) have to be accompanied by proper translations in Lithuanian, English, French, Russian or German if these documents are not produced in one of these languages.”.\n(c) In Schedule 5, at the end there shall be added the following Part, namely:\n“PART 5\nORDER REVOKED WITH EFFECT FROM 1ST DECEMBER 1995\nOrder in Council dated 26th May 1927 directing that the Extradition Acts shall apply in the case of the Republic of Lithuania (S.R. and O. 1927/504).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/1507 as amended by S.I. 1992/2663, 1993/2667, 1994/2796, 1994/3203, 1995/1624, 1995/1962."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}