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contains, as subsection (2), the proposition that we believe to
be needed.
We then realised that the first of the new clauses needed words
corresponding to subsection (1)(c) of the second. So it now has
a subsection (1) (c) of its own.
The various provisions in legislation about extradition fall into
two different categories. In the first place, you have the rules
about procedure, prohibitions on extradition etc. Secondly,
there are provisions that bring these substantive rules into
operation in particular cases. Thus in each of the amendments
about international conventions one has a power to make an Order
in Council, as the machinery for bringing the extradition rules
into action. The machinery in Part I of the Bill is to be found
in clauses 2 and 11. It must therefore have been wrong for the
first of the new clauses to refer to clause 2 in
subsection (2)(b). We have altered it so as to make it refer to
clause 3 and thus fall into line with the amendments about
international conventions.
The result of all this is that what we are doing for clause 18 is
slightly out of line with what we are doing for the colonies and
for international conventions. We felt that in following the
second of the alternatives that I suggested in my letter of 16
May we really must exclude clause 1(9). But we have not excluded
anything else. We have therefore brought in references to
section 2 of the 1870 Act, clause 2 of the Bill, etc. We cannot
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