Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

EXTRADITION ACT 1988 - SECT 20

(1)

Where:

(a)

either:

(i)

in proceedings under section 18, a person consents in accordance with that section to being surrendered to an extradition country in relation to an extradition offence or extradition offences; or

(ii)

in proceedings under subsection 19(1), a magistrate determines that a person is eligible for surrender to an extradition country in relation to an extradition offence or extradition offences; and

(b)

the extradition country has requested that the person also be surrendered for an offence that is not an extradition offence or offences that are not extradition offences;

the magistrate shall, in those proceedings, ask the person whether he or she consents to being surrendered to the country in respect of the offence or any of the offences referred to in paragraph (b).

(2)

Where the person gives his or her consent to being so surrendered, the magistrate shall, unless he or she considers that the consent was not given voluntarily, advise the Attorney-General in writing of the offence or offences in respect of which the person has so consented.