Paragraph 1
This section applies to any offence of which a person is accused or has been convicted outside the Territory if the act constituting the offence, or the equivalent act, would, if it took place in the Territory or, in the case of an extraterritorial offence, in corresponding circumstances outside the Territory, constitute one of the offences listed in Schedule 1 to this Act.
For the purposes mentioned in subsection (3) below—
no offence to which this section applies shall be regarded as an offence of a political character; and
no proceedings in respect of an offence to which this section applies shall be regarded as a criminal matter of a political character or as criminal proceedings of a political character.
Those purposes are—
the purposes of the Extradition Act 1870 in relation to any requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal made on behalf of a convention country after the coming into force of this paragraph;
the purposes of the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 as extended to the Territory in relation to any request for the return of a person under that Act made on behalf of a convention country after the coming into force of this paragraph; and
the purposes of section 5 of the Extradition Act 1873 (evidence for foreign criminal matters) and section 5 of the Evidence (Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions) Act 1975 (evidence for criminal proceedings outside the Territory) as extended to the Territory (or the equivalent provision in the law of the Territory) in relation to any criminal proceedings instituted in a convention country (not being the Republic of Ireland) after the coming into force of this paragraph.