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DFB LE BRETON, NTD
DATE: 9 DECEMBER 1986
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Legal Advisers Treaty Section, NTD
RATIFICATION OF THE UK/UNITED STATES SUPPLEMENTARY EXTRADITON TREATY
PROBLEM
1. The Secretary of State's signature to the enclosed Instrument
of Ratification of the Supplementary Treaty concluded between the
United Kingdom and the United States on 25 June 1985 is required before it may be exchanged against a similar instrument on the part of the United States of America, thus bringing the Treaty into
force.
RECOMMENDATION
2. I recommend that the Secretary of State should sign the Instrument of Ratification in the place indicated on the last page.
BACKGROUND AND ARGUMENT
A 3. The text of the Supplementary Treaty and of an amending Exchange
of Notes was presented to Parliament as a Command Paper (Cmnd 9915) on 21 October 1986 and has therefore completed its laying period of 21 sitting-days under the Ponsonby Rule.
4. In accordance with Article 7 the Supplementary Treaty will enter into force upon the exchange of ratifications. The Home Office laid before Parliament the necessary draft Order in Council extending the
Suppression of Terrorism Act 1978 to the United States of America
and this was debated and approved in the House of Commons on 26 November and in the House of Lords on 27 November. Two further
implementing Orders in Council, for which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is responsible, were laid before Parliament on 3 December 1986 and will be brought into effect once the Instruments of Ratification have been exchanged.
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