Statute Law Repeals - Law Commission - Ministry of Justice

GROUP 3 - EXTRADITION
2.19 The Extradition Act 1870 19 created a code for the extradition of persons either
accused or convicted of crime in the United Kingdom or (when extended by Order
in Council) within certain “British possessions”. The 1870 Act was supplemented
by the Extradition Act 1873, 20 which extended the list of crimes (scheduled
originally to the 1870 Act) for which extradition was available, and included within
the ambit of extradition being an accessory to such crimes.
2.20 Since enactment of the 1873 Act a series of statutes has amended or updated
extradition law, culminating in the Extradition Act 2003. 21 Prior to 2003 the
Extradition Act 1989 22 had consolidated various provisions, including the
Extradition Acts 1870 to 1932. The net effect of the consolidation and
amendments was that the Extradition Act 1870 was repealed in whole (with a
saving for Orders in Council made under section 2 ratifying arrangements with
foreign states to surrender fugitive offenders), along with the bulk of the
Extradition Act 1873. 23
2.21 All that remains of the 1873 Act are the short title, the long title (“An Act to amend
the Extradition Act 1870”) and the words in section 1 “This Act may be cited as
‘The Extradition Act 1873’”. These provisions are superseded and the whole Act
can now be repealed. The 1870 and the 1873 Acts extended originally to the
whole of the UK and to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
GROUP 4 - FORGERY
2.22 The Forgery of Foreign Bills Act 1803 24 was designed to outlaw the growing
practice of forging and counterfeiting foreign bills of exchange and promissory
notes within the United Kingdom, which had become all the more prevalent
because of the ability to engrave the requisite printing plates.
19 33 & 34 Vict. c.52 (1870). The 1870 Act repealed previous legislation on extradition,
including the Extradition Act 1866 (c.121).
20 36 & 37 Vict. c.60 (1873).
21 2003 (c.41).
22 1989 (c.33).
23 Much of section 1, together with sections 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 and the Schedule were repealed
by the Extradition Act 1989, s 37(1) and Sch 2. Section 2 was repealed by the Statute Law
Revision Act 1950 (c.6), s 1 and Sch 1. And section 5 was repealed by the Criminal Justice
(International Co-operation) Act 1990 (c.5), s 31(3) and Sch 5.
24 43 Geo.3 c.139 (1803).
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