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Ireland: Extradition

01 January 1994

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The Irish government is drawing up new extradition legislation which will give gardai new powers and tighten up on the definition of political offences. The move follows a legal ruling two years ago in which extradition was refused when the court judged the possession of a non-automatic weapon as a political offence. The new bill states that it will not be possible to claim the use of non-automatic weapons as "political" for the purposes of avoiding extradition. Gardai are to be given new powers of arrest for extradition - they will no longer require an extradition warrant - and they will be able to detain people for seven days (3 at present) while a warrant is obtained. Bail applications in extradition cases will be centralised on Dublin High Court and it will no longer be necessary to specify a hand- over point in the carrying out of an extradition. The new provisions, governing extradition requests from the UK, will not come into force, says Justice Minister Maire Geoghegan Quinn, until Britain has clarified the law on "speciality" which says that extradited persons should only face trial for those offences for which they have been extradited.

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