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Office of the Parliamentary Counsel 36 Whitehall London SWIA 2AY Telephone Direct line or 210 6539
Switchboard of 210 3000
DJ Bentley Esq
Legal Adviser's Branch
HID
Home Office
50 Queen Anne's Gate
London SW1H 9AT
370/2
21 April 1968
CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL
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EXTRADITION
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APPLICATION ΤΟ CHANNEL ISLANDS, ISLE OF MAN AND COLONIES INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS
I sent you some amendments on 15 April. On the same date I sent
Mrs Evans amendments about torture. One of her clauses concerns
In the draft of 15 April
There were provisions
extradition under Part I of the Bill.
subsection (3) of that clause provided that an Order in Council
was not to exclude clause 6 (8) (a).
corresponding to this in most of the clauses about international
Conventions. On 20 April I sent Mrs Evans revised versions of
her amendments. It appeared to me that it would be better to
avoid the somewhat oblique reference to clause 6(8) (a) and spell
out what we really mean.
extradition is therefore in a new form. The corresponding
Subsection (3) of her clause about
subsections in your drafts need to be
be in line.
I
therefore
enclose revised drafts and am sending copies of them and of this
letter to MacLeod, Kowalski and Erskine.
J D M RENNIE
ENC