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Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 97-21 Filed 12/14/20 Page 26 of 29 Cases where the requested person consents to extradition Sending the case to the No statutory time-limit® Secretary of State Comment [5]: in practice, where the requested person consents to extradition, the case is sent to the Secretary of State straight away Order for extradition Two months of the date on which the case is sent to the Secretary of State’ Comment [6]: where the requested person consents to extradition, the Secretary of State does not need to wait four weeks to consider any representations from the requested person before ordering extradition: section 93(7) Removal 28 days of the order for extradition® Cases where there is an extradition hearing The date of the extradition | Two months from the date on which the Secretary of State hearing (provisional arrest) | sends the documents to the extradition judge. That date can be extended by the extradition judge on application by one of the parties where the judge considers it to be “in the interests of justice”’ to fix a later date. The time-limit can be extended more than once” Comment [7]: in practice, the extradition judge often “opens” the extradition hearing at the initial hearing with the effect that this time-limit ceases to run The date of the extradition | Two months from the initial hearing. That date can be hearing (arrest pursuant toa | extended by the extradition judge on application by one of the full request) parties where the judge considers it to be “in the interests of justice”’ to fix a later date. The time-limit can be extended more than once!® Comment [8]: in practice, the extradition judge often “opens” the extradition hearing at the initial hearing with the effect that this time-limit ceases to run © Extradition Act 2003, s. 128. 7 Extradition Act 2003, s. 99(3). 8 Extradition Act 2003, s. 117(2)(a). ° Extradition Act 2003, s. 76(3)-(4). 1° Extradition Act 2003, s. 75(2)-(3). DOJ-OGR-00002121