Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1992 No. 403 EXTRADITION (TRAFFIC IN NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES) REGULATIONS - REG 3

3. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:

"relevant country" means a specified country to which, because of a
specified law, the Act applies subject to:

   (a)  a treaty; or

   (b)  limitations, conditions, exceptions or qualifications;

"specified country" means a country specified in the Schedule;

"specified law" means:

   (a)  Regulations made under paragraph 11 (1) (a) or (b) of the Act; or

   (b)  subsection 11 (3) of the Act; as in force from time to time;

"the Act" means the Extradition Act 1988;

"the UN Convention" means the United Nations Convention Against Illicit
Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, being the Convention
referred to in, and a copy of the English text of which is set out in the
Schedule to, the Crimes (Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic 
Substances) Act 1990 . (NOTE: Regulations made under paragraph 11 (1) (a) of
the Act apply the Act to countries with which Australia has a bilateral
extradition treaty. Regulations made under paragraph 11 (1) (b) of the Act
apply the Act to countries with which the country's extradition arrangements
with Australia do not depend on a treaty. Subsection 11 (3) of the Act
provides for the limitations, conditions, exceptions and qualifications
subject to which the Act applies to certain countries with which Great Britain
had extradition treaties which now apply to Australia.)