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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
for [WRITTEN answer on4 February 1974
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The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by
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La Mr Ray Carter (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of Staté for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the rules for extradition between Hong Kong and the UK; and if he will state on how many occasions they have been used over the past five years.
Mr Blaker
Extradition arrangements between Hong Kong and the
United Kingdom are governed by the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 as applied and modified by the Fugitive Offenders
(Hong Kong) Order 1967.
During the last five years the figures of applications
for return from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom were as
N11: 1970 Nil: 1971 1 application
t'ollows:
1969
1973
J
nil
successful: 1972 1 application which was withdrawn
following the voluntary return of the fugitive:
There were no applications under the Fugitive Offenders
Act for any returns to Hong Kong from the United Kingdom
over the same period.