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Iain MacLeod Esq Legal Adviser
Foreign & Commonwealth office Downing Street
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19 April, 1988
Dear Pain
CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL
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EXTRADITION
A couple of points occur to me on the version of the Application
to Colonies clause of 15 April.
(1).
They both arise from subsection
If clause 1(8) of the Bill is not applied, will not the colony be
in difficulties over the glosses, provided there? (Except for
that relating to the law of the United Kingdom, which is picked
up by new clause 1(2)). Of course Counsel may prefer to achieve
the same effect as clause 1(8) of the Bill in some
in some other way,
rather than applying it directly, because of this overlap.
The application by subsection (1) of the new clause of clauses 2
to 18 unnecessarily includes clause 11 (special arrangements).
We are concerned only with cases where a general arrangement
already exists so that a clause 2 Order can be made. But does
FCO want the colonies to be able to go in for ad hoc extradition?