5.
The provisions of the 1978 Act as applied to Hong Kong by
the 1979 Order will lapse as part of the law of Hong Kong on 30 June
1997. The British side therefore proposes to introduce a Bill to
localise those provisions. The localising Ordinance, if enacted,
will make it an offence in Hong Kong for a person, of whatever
nationality, to commit certain acts of violence outside Hong Kong,
if those acts are done in relation to a protected person and would
be an offence if done in Hong Kong. It will also make it an offence
in Hong Kong for a person, of whatever nationality to attempt, aid,
abet, counsel, prove or threaten the commission of such an act, in
Hong Kong or elsewhere, in relation to a protected person.
6.
The localising Ordinance will not confer on an authority
in Hong Kong any powers formerly held by an authority in the United
Kingdom. It will however, if enacted, have extraterritorial effect
in that, as required by the Convention, an offence specified in the
Ordinance which is committed outside Hong Kong will be an offence
under Hong Kong law and triable by the Hong Kong courts if the
offender is brought within the jurisdiction of those courts.
Fugitive Offenders
7.
As mentioned in para. 3 above, provision to make offences
specified in the 1978 Act extraditable in Hong Kong was made by the
1979 Extradition Order which, in relation to States in respect of