SECTION 650

(1) Subject to international conventions, any request for extradition shall be made through diplomatic channels. To this application shall be attached, as the case may be: (a) a copy of the judgment, even if the person was convicted it absentia; (b) a document ordering that the accused be brought before a court for preliminary inquiry or for trial; (c) a warrant of arrest or any other document having the same effect and issuing from the competent foreign authority. However, the said document shall specify the offence on which it is founded and its date. (2) The judgment carrying a conviction and the document mentioned in sub-section (1) b) above shall be the original or a duly certified copy thereof. (3) The requesting Government shall at the same time attach a copy of the law applicable to the offence charged, and an account of the facts of the case. (4) In the case of a judgment in default, the requesting government shall, in 1 addition, furnish evidence that the person concerned had knowledge of the trial, and sufficient legal means for his defence.