THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 29, 1926.
ARTICLE 20.
The present convention shall come into force ten days after its publication, in con- formity with the forms prescribed by the laws of the High Contracting Parties. It may be terminated by either of the High Contracting Parties by a notice not exceeding one year and not less than six months.
It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London, as soon as possible.
In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the convention and have affixed thereto their respective seals.
Done at London, the 18th day of November, in the year 1925.
[L.S.]
[L.S.]
AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN. OSKAR KALLAS.
LAIN.
And whereas the ratifications of the said Convention were exchanged at London on the 11th day of May, 1926 :
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to Him by the said recited Acts, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the 12th day of July, 1926, the said Act shall apply in the case of the Estonian Republic under and in accordance with the said Convention of the 18th November, 1925.
Provided always that the operation of the said Acts shall be and remain suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as an Act of the Parliament of Canada, being Part 1 of chapter 155 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906, and entitled
66 'An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals," shall continue in force there, and no longer.
Provided further that the operation of the said Acts shall be and remain suspended within the self-governing Dominions hereinafter named, that is to say, the Commonwealth of Australia (including for this purpose Papua and Norfolk Island), the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland, and India, until notification shall have been made in the "London Gazette that the Con- vention has been made applicable thereto, and that on such notification being made in respect of any such Dominion or India the said Acts shall apply in such Dominion or India in the case of the Estonian Republic under and in accordance with the said Con- vention as from the date of the said notification.
This Order may be cited as the "Estonia (Extradition) Order in Council, 1926 ”.
M. P. A. HANKEY.
NOTE: The above Order in Council was published in the London Gazette of the 2nd July, 1926.