Belize

Genocide Act - Chapter 110

BELIZE - GENOCIDE ACT

3. -(1) The Extradition Act shall apply to this Act.

(2) For the purposes of the Extradition Act, no offence which, if committed in Belize, would be punishable as an offence of genocide or as an attempt, conspiracy or incitement to commit such an offence shall be regarded as an offence of a political character and no proceedings in respect of such an offence shall be regarded as a criminal matter of a political character.

4. It shall not be an objection to any proceedings taken against a person by virtue of sections 2 and 3 that under any law in force at the time when and in the place where he is alleged to have committed the act of which he is accused or of which he is convicted he could not have been punished therefor .

Keywords

Extradition



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