ORDER OF REMOVAL OF A PRISONER
COLONIAL PRISONERS' REMOVAL ACT, 1884
Whereas George William Puttock was on the thirtieth day of July 1976 convicted before the Supreme Court of Hong Kong of the offence of murder and received the sentence of death, subsequently commuted by the Governor and Commander-in-Chief to a sentence of life imprisonment:
And whereas the said George William Puttock belonged at the time of committing the said offence to Her Majesty's regular military forces:
Now I do hereby, in pursuance of the Colonial Prisoners' Removal Act, 1884, with the concurrence of the Government of the said Colony, order that the said George William Puttock be removed to the United Kingdom there to undergo the residue of the said sentence (with such variations of the conditions thereof as are or shall be provided by any regulations in force for the time being under the said act) in accordance with the said Act.
Given under the hand of the undersigned, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, this
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