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Thailand-United Kingdom Extradition Treaty
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  1. Receiving money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to have been stolen, embezzled, or unlawfully obtained.
  2. Crimes against bankruptcy law.
  3. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, or director, or member or public officer of any company made criminal by any law for the time being in force.
  4. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
  5. Rape.
  6. Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of puberty, according to the laws of the respective countries.
  7. Indecent assault.
  8. Procuring miscarriage, administering drugs, or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman.
  9. Abduction.
  10. Child stealing.
  11. Abandoning children, exposing or unlawfully detaining them.
  12. Kidnapping and false imprisonment.
  13. Burglary or housebreaking.
  14. Arson.
  15. Robbery with violence.
  16. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any person in a railway train.
  17. Threats by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort.
  18. Piracy by law of nations.
  19. Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting or conspiring to do so.
  20. Assaults on board a ship on the high seas, with intent to destroy life, or do grievous bodily harm.
  21. Revolt, or conspiracy to revolt, by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master.
  22. Dealing in slaves in such a manner as to constitute a criminal offence against the laws of both States.

Extradition is to be granted for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both contracting Parties. Extradition may also be granted at the discretion of the State applied to in respect of any other crime for which, according to the law of both of the contracting Parties for the time being in force, the grant can be made.

Article 3.

Either Government may, at its absolute discretion, refuse to deliver up its own subjects to the other Government.

Article 4.

The extradition shall not take place if the person claimed on the part of the Government of the United Kingdom, or the person claimed on the part of the Government of Siam, has already been tried and discharged or punished, or is still under trial in the territory of Siam or in the United Kingdom respectively for the crime for which his extradition is demanded. If the person claimed on the part of the Government of the United Kingdom, or if the person claimed on the part of the Government of Siam, should be under