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Iain MacLeod Esq
Legal Adviser's Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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HLCD 370/2
9 March 1988
R 988
Dear MacLeod,
CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL EXTRADITION
APPLICATION TO COLONIES
Thank you for your letter of 8 March, about which we have spoken.
We quite appreciate your point that
Kingdom government must be protected.
the powers of the United
Hence the proposition that
the governor "may exercise the powers of the Secretary of State"
in subsection (3). This leaves open the possibility that the ✓ Secretary of State may step in himself, though obviously this
would be exceptional.
In subsection (4) the words "recognised by the governor" and
"recognised by the Secretary of State" are new. They are
inspired by the phrase "recognised by the governor" in section
17(1) of the 1870 Act.
In subsection (6)
(6) the words "specified in the Order" are new.
When we spoke, you thought that they might be helpful.
There