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CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL
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29 March 1988
EXTRADITION
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We have had a helpful letter of 25 March from MacLeod. I see
that he sent you a copy. We entirely agreed with everything he
said, and have revised our amendments accordingly. This has
actually meant a fair amount of re-arrangement.
In particular we take the point that arrangements under the 1870
Act will go on. Orders in Council under section 2 can no longer
be made, because of clause 1(6). But that preserves existing
Orders. Where one is concerned with an international Convention,
the oddity about an 1870 order is that the list of extradition
crimes is very short. But they are still in the same position,
by virtue of clause 1(6), as Orders with the full list of
extradition crimes. It seemed to us to be as well to alter the
phrase "is applied" to "has been applied", just to make it quite
clear that there really can be no new Orders.
The page and line references to the amendments are now of course
to the text of the Bill as amended in Standing Committee.
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