whom
there may be some territories for when it will be easier to use the
extension mechanisms provided.
4. Further work has still to be done on the Bill, and indeed
additional amendments to the 1986 Act will be necessary. I am pleased
to inform you that while this is being done the Home Office have
agreed that the Instructions and draft Bill should be sent to you on a
confidential basis. This should enable you to take stock of the state
of your legislation, and ponder on the path ahead. I would be most
grateful if after so doing you could let me know what steps you plan
to take to update your own ability to provide modern mutual legal
assistance.
5.
As you may know UK Ministers attach particular importance to early
ratification of the UN Convention.
We hope to be able to ratify the
Convention before the London conference on Demand Reduction in the
context of Cocaine scheduled for April 1990. I hope that this early
sight of these papers will help you to move forward quickly.
CC:
CJB White
Economic Relations Department
Mr Boyle, C7 Division, Home Office ·
Mr Waterworth, Legal Advisers
Mr Penfold, WIAD.
Mr Minter, NCAD ·
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