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GUVERNMENT HUUSE HUNG KUNG
31 11-20
PHGE 04
AKTICLE 3
CONFIDENTIAL
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το
reserve
insisted
Canada
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Canada agreed that Hong Kong could have a right
сде surrender of nationals but did not wish to
equivalent right to itself. It nevertheless
that where this right was exercized by Hong Kong
should be entitled to request that Hong Kong
prosecution. We explained that Hong Kong had very
extra-territorial jurisdiction and that we would,
in any event, usually take the view that prosecution would
Canada understood this but nevertheless
consider
limited
be inappropriate
considered such
requirement important so
so that the
agreement would on its face allow a national, in respect of
In
inserted for
whom › surrender ✰ had
*
been refused, to be prosecuted.
effecti Canada. want the requirement
presentational reasons. It is important to note that the
obligation is only to consider prosecution action; there is
no obligation to actually prosecute.
ARTICLE 4
y.
NO
substantive change; 'this penalty' replaced by
sentence of death
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