Paragraph 19 Interpretation.

In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them, that is to say:—

• “Act” means, in relation to the United Kingdom, the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 and, in relation to Anguilla or to any other United Kingdom dependency, that Act as extended to Anguilla or, as the case may be, to that other dependency;

• “application for habeas corpus” means an application for a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum;

• “country” includes any territory;

• “Court of Appeal” and “High Court” mean the Court of Appeal and the High Court established by the West Indies Associated States Supreme Court Order 1967^f1;

• “dealt with” means tried or returned or surrendered to any country or detained with a view to trial or with a view to such return or surrender;

• “designated Commonwealth country” and “United Kingdom dependency” have the meanings assigned by section 2 of this Act;

• “Governor”, in relation to Anguilla, means the Governor of Anguilla and includes any person or persons administering the government of Anguilla;

• “Governor”, in relation to any country other than Anguilla, means the person or persons administering the government of that country;

• “imprisonment” includes detention of any description;

• “race” includes tribe;

• “United Kingdom” includes the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

For the purposes of this Act a person convicted of an offence in his absence shall be treated as a person accused of that offence.