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a notification in the Gazette under section 4 of the Extradition Act (Cap. 103) may be made applying that Act in relation to that country as if the treaty provided for the matter referred to in paragraph (b).

(6) Where a notification referred to in subsection (5) is made, any limitation, condition, exception or qualification specified in any other notification made under section 4 of the Extradition Act, or in any Order in Council referred to in section 3 of that Act, in relation to that country shall, to the extent that it prevents the relevant offence from being considered an extradition crime in relation to that country, be disregarded in the application of that Act in relation to that country.

(7) For the purposes of the Extradition Act—

(a) any act, wherever committed, which is a relevant offence of a Protocol country which is a declared Commonwealth country, or which is a relevant offence of a Protocol country which is not a declared Commonwealth country in the case of which the Extradition Act has been applied by a notification in the Gazette made under section 4 of that Act, shall be deemed to be an offence within the jurisdiction of that country; and
(b) any such offence shall be deemed not to be an offence of a political character.

(8) In this section—

"declared Commonwealth country" has the meaning given to that expression in the Extradition Act;
"Protocol country" means a Convention country that is a party to the Protocol;
"relevant offence", in relation to a Protocol country, means an offence against the law of that country where the act or omission constituting the offence or the equivalent act or omission—
(a) would constitute an offence which is an offence against a UN worker by virtue only of section 3(3); or