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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-convention-on-extradition-order-2001/schedule-4/part-18/crossheading-reservations",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/962",
  "legislation_title": "The European Convention on Extradition Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-convention-on-extradition-order-2001",
  "path": "schedule/4/part/18/crossheading/reservations",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Reservations",
  "text": "Israel will not grant extradition of any person unless he is accused or has been convicted in the requesting State of an offence which, had it been committed in Israel, would be one of the following offences:\n(a) Any offence for which the death penalty or imprisonment for a period exceeding three years may be imposed (even if the penalty is lighter where the sentence is passed by a magistrate’s court), except:\n1. an offence with which a person can only be charged if at the time of committing it he is a soldier within the meaning of the Military Justice Law, 5715–1955;\n2. offences under Section 85 of the Criminal Code Ordinance, 1936 (preventing by force or obstructing notification or presence of a competent police officer in the event of a riotous assembly or riot) or under the Penal Law Amendment (Bigamy) Law, 5719–1959 (bigamy);\n3. offences under the Penal Law Amendment (Assault on Police Officers) Law 5712–1952, or under any of the laws specified in the Schedule to the Prevention of Profiteering and Speculation (Jurisdiction) Law, 5711–1951 (various laws, regulations and bye-laws regulating sub-leasing and accommodation of guests, and the distribution, prices and control of the sale of foodstuffs).\n(b) An offence the penalty for which is lighter than above specified and which is an offence under the Penal Law Amendment (Bribery) Law, 5712–1952, or under any of the following sections of the Criminal Code Ordinance, 1936: 88 (riotously preventing the sailing of a ship), 109B, 110–115 (various offences relating to abuse of office by public servants), 120–122, 124 (false swearing, deceiving witnesses, destroying evidence, conspiracy to defeat justice and interference with witnesses), 140 (fraud by public officers), 146 (insult to religion), 156, 158, 159 (intercourse by husband with girl under 15 years, indecency without force and indecent act upon person under 16 years), 161d. (sodomy), 185, 186 (neglect in the supply of food etc., and desertion of children), 195 (spread of dangerous infection or disease), 218 (homicide by carelessness), 242, 250 (assault causing bodily harm), 261, 262 (compulsory labour and false imprisonment), 270 (theft), 304b. and c. (defrauding of creditors), 305 (conspiracy to defraud the public), 310 (receiving property fraudulently obtained), 350 (imitation of bank-notes), 359, 360, 363–366 (counterfeiting), or under the Penal Law Amendment (Deceit, Blackmail and Extortion) Law, 5723–1963 (deceit and forgery).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1873",
      "affecting_title": "The European Convention on Extradition (Amendment No. 2) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/408",
      "affecting_title": "The European Convention on Extradition (Amendment) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/408",
      "affecting_title": "The European Convention on Extradition (Amendment) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/408",
      "affecting_title": "The European Convention on Extradition (Amendment) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1829",
      "affecting_title": "The European Convention on Extradition (Armenia and Georgia) (Amendment) Order 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1829",
      "affecting_title": "The European Convention on Extradition (Armenia and Georgia) (Amendment) Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/962/schedule/4/part/18/crossheading/reservations",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:54:53.536266+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}