THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 4, 1927.
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No. 65. The following Order of His Majesty in Council is published for general information.
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AT THE COURT AT SANDRINGHAM,
THE 20TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1926.
PRESENT :
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE HENRY.
EARL OF SEFTON.
HON. WILLIAM WATSON.
THEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 (a) to 1906, (b) it was amongst other things enacted that, where an arrangement has been made with any foreign State with respect to the surrender to such State of any fugitive criminals, His Majesty may, by Order in Council direct that the said Acts shall apply in the case of such foreign State; and that His Majesty may, by the same or any subsequent Order, limit the opera- tion of the Order, and restrict the same to fugitive criminals who are in or suspected of being in the part of His Majesty's Dominions specified in the Order, and render the operation thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions and qualifications as may be deemed expedient ;
And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the 11th day of November, 1924, between His Majesty and the President of the Czechoslovak Republic for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, which Treaty is in the terms following:-
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India ;
And the President of the Czechoslovak Republic;
having determined, by common consent, to conclude a treaty for the extradition of criminals, have accordingly named as their plenipotentiaries :
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India :
Sir William George Tyrrell, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.B., Assistant Under-Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs;
And the President of the Czecholovak Republic:
Dr. Emil Spira, Head of Department in the Ministry of Justice;
Who, after having exhibited to each other their respective full powers, and found them in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:-
ARTICLE 1.
The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other, under certain. circumstances and conditions stated in the present treaty, those persons who, being charged with or convicted of any of the crimes or offences enumerated in article 2, com- mitted within the jurisdiction of the one Party, shall be found within the territory of the other Party.
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