CHAPTER TWO
EXTRADITION
Division Two
Section 509
Court decision
(1) After the conclusion of the preliminary investigation the court shall decide upon the motion of the prosecutor on the admissibility of extradition and shall subsequently submit the case to the Ministry of Justice after the decision become final.
(2) The Regional Court which took the decision on provisional arrest or custody pending extradition shall have jurisdiction to conduct the proceedings under paragraph 1; if no decision on provisional arrest or custody pending extradition was taken, the Regional Court in whose district the person whose extradition is sought resides shall have jurisdiction.
(3) The court shall decide on the admissibility of extradition in a closed hearing. Before giving its decision, the court shall enable the person whose extradition is sought and his defence counsel to make a written statement on the request for extradition. If the person or his counsel in the statement so request, or if the court itself finds it necessary, it shall take its decision on admissibility of extradition in a public hearing.
(4) An appeal solely on one of the grounds of inadmissibility of extradition under Article 501 by the prosecutor or by the person whose extradition is sought shall be admissible against the decision of the Regional Court on admissibility of extradition ; the appeal shall have a postponing effect. The decision of inadmissibility shall be subject to an appeal solely by the prosecutor and such appeal shall have a postponing effect.
(5) The appeal shall the decided upon by the Supreme Court. An appellate court in a closed hearing shall dismiss the appeal if it finds the appeal unsubstantiated. If it upholds the appeal, it shall revoke the appealed decision and after taking additional evidence, if necessary, it shall itself decide by a resolution, whether the extradition is admissible or not. Article 506 paragraph 2 shall be applicable mutatis mutandis.
Competent national judicial authority
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