{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-act-1989-repealed/schedule-1/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-act-1989-repealed/schedule-1/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/33",
  "legislation_title": "Extradition Act 1989 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-act-1989-repealed",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) When a fugitive criminal is brought before the District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) he shall have the same powers, as near as may be, including power to adjourn the case and meanwhile to remand the prisoner either in custody or on bail, as if the proceedings were the summary trial of an information against him for an offence committed in England and Wales; and section 16(1)(c) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (costs on dismissal) shall apply accordingly reading the reference to the dismissal of the information as a reference to the discharge of the prisoner.\n(1A) If the metropolitan magistrate exercises his power to adjourn the case he shall on so doing remand the prisoner either in custody or on bail.\n(2) The District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) shall receive any evidence which may be tendered to show that the crime of which the prisoner is accused or alleged to have been convicted is an offence of a political character or is not an extradition crime.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 6(1) substituted (31.8.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 78, Sch. 11 para. 36(1)(5) (with s. 107, Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2000/1920, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 6(1) substituted (1.4.1997) by 1994 c. 33, s. 158(8)(a); S.I. 1997/882, art. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 6(1A) inserted (1.4.1997) by 1994 c. 33, s. 158(b); S.I. 1997/882, art. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 6(2) substituted (31.8.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 78, Sch. 11 para. 36(1)(2) (with s. 107, Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2000/1920, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1985 c. 23."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/33/schedule/1/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:45:55.996120+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."
}