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Next there is a small point on the amendments about aviation.
For each of the two Acts we have to have a preliminary amendment,
in order to ensure that the definitions are attracted properly.
You commented
this on
in paragraph 3(a) of your letter, in
connection with the Aviation Security Act. The preliminary
amendments need to be picked up in
in the provisions about the
colonies. So there are two
additions to what you had
previously.
Parliament has passed a number of Acts to give international
conventions the force of law in the United Kingdom. We are busy
amending their
The convention about
extradition provisions.
torture has so far not been given effect.
effect in the present Bill.
this convention must be the
others.
But we are giving it
It seems to us that what we do for
same as what we are doing for the
As a matter of form there is inevitably a little
difference, simply because torture is in the current Bill and not
in past legislation. But it seems pretty clear to us that, if we
alter the draft
for the Internationally Protected
amendments
Persons Act and the others that go with it, we have to make
corresponding alterations
for torture.
I therefore enclose
drafts about torture. We understand that the main clause is
So it is purely on the extradition side that there
satisfactory.
is any outstanding difficulty.
I am sending copies of this letter and of your amendments to
Bentley, Kowalski and Erskine. I am also sending them to Aust
and Mrs Evans, who are respectively dealing with torture at your