THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 9, 1933.
The requisition for the extradition of an accused person must be accompanied by a warrant of arrest issued by the competent authority in the territories of the High Contracting Farty requiring the extradition, and by such evidence as, according to the laws of the place where the accused is found, would justify his arrest if the crime or offence had been committed there.
If the requisition relates to a person already convicted, it must be accompanied by the sentence of condemnation passed against the convicted person by the competent court in the territories of the High Contracting Party who makes the requisition for extradition.
A sentence passed in contumaciam is not to be deemed a conviction, but a person so sentenced may be dealt with as an accused person.
ARTICLE 10.
If the requisition for extradition be in accordance with the foregoing stipulations, the competent authorities in the territories of the High Contracting Party applied to shall proceed to the arrest of the fugitive.
ARTICLE 11.
A criminal fugitive may be apprehended under a warrant issued by any police magistrate, justice of the peace, or other competent authority in the territories of the High Contracting Party applied to on such information or complaint and such evidence, or after such proceedings, as would, in the opinion of the authority issuing the warrant, justify the issue of a warrant if the crime or offence had been committed or the person convicted in that part of the territories of such High Contracting Party in which the magistrate, justice of the peace, or other competent authority exercises jurisdiction. He shall, in accordance with this article, be discharged if within the term of two months a requisition for extradition shall not have been made by the diplomatic agent of the High Contracting Party claiming his extradition in accordance with the stipulations of this Treaty. The same rule shall apply to the cases of persons accused or convicted of any of the crimes or offences specified in this Treaty, and committed on the high seas on board any vessel of either High Contract-- ing Party which may come into a port of the other
ARTICLE 12.
The extradition shall take place only if the evidence be found sufficient, according to the laws of the High Con- tracting Party applied to, either to justify the committal of the prisoner for trial, in case the crime or offence of which he is accused had been committed in the territory of such High Contracting Party, or to prove that the prisoner is the identical person convicted by the courts of the High Contract- ing Party who makes the requisition, and that the crime or offence of which he has been convicted is one in respect of which extradition could, at the time of such conviction, have been granted by the High Contracting Party applied to under this Treaty,
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