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Legal Adviser's Branch
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9 May 1933
CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL
CHILDREN
TORTURE AND INDECENT PHOTOGRAPHS OF
Thank you for your letter of 6 hay.
NIT
We are glad to know that you are happy with what we have done
about indecent photographs.
subject.
We have no further thoughts on this
We are seeking to give effect to an
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I am afraid however that the situation with regard to torture is
a little more troublesome.
international convention. We have to deal with extradition.
you know, there are several Acts passed in recent years that also
deal with extradition in relation to international conventions.
We have been busy amending them. We had some further comments
from MacLeod, on behalf of the FCO, in a letter dated 5 May. We
have tried to do what he wanted. But as we see it, every time we
alter the amendments about the other conventions, we have to make
corresponding alterations in relation to torture.