{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-extradition-rules-1989/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1597",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) Rules 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-extradition-rules-1989",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person arrested in pursuance of a warrant under section 8 of or paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Act may at any time consent to his return; and where such consent is given in accordance with the following provisions of this rule, a metropolitan magistrate may order the committal for return of that person in accordance with section 14(2) of the Act or, as the case may be, paragraph 9(2) of Schedule 1 to the Act.\n(2) A notice of consent for the purposes of this rule shall be given in form 2 set out in the Schedule to these Rules or a form to the like effect and shall be signed in the presence of a metropolitan magistrate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/384",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1597/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:37:39.092790+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."
}