The Schedule: Power of arrest for extradition purposes Part 1 – Main Amendments to the Extradition Act 2003 Section 74C
This section sets out the criteria that a request for a person’s arrest must meet to be valid for certification purposes.
	Subsection (1) provides that a request for a person’s arrest is valid if it is made in the approved way and contains the correct statement and information referred to in subsections (2) to (5). Subsection (6) explains that a request is made in the approved way if it is made by an authority which the designated authority believes has the function of making such requests in that territory.
	The statement and information that a request for arrest must contain under subsections (2) to (5) will vary according to whether the person is accused in the category 2 territory of the commission of an offence and is therefore wanted for prosecution or whether the person has been convicted of an offence by a court in the category 2 territory and is therefore wanted for the purposes of being sentenced or serving a sentence. The relevant provisions are self-explanatory.