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Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992

Preliminary provisions

6: Act not authority for extradition of any person

You could also call this:

"This law does not let the government send you to another country."

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This Act does not allow the government to send you to another country. It does not let them arrest or detain you to send you to another country. The Act does not give authority for this to happen to anyone.

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Part 1Preliminary provisions

6Act not authority for extradition of any person

  1. Nothing in this Act authorises—

  2. the extradition or rendition of any person; or
    1. the arrest or detention, with a view to extradition or rendition, of any person.