THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 13, 1911. 423

Who, having reciprocally communicated their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed as follows:-

ARTICLE 1.

The following article is substituted for article 6 of the Extradition Treaty of the 29th October, 1901 :-

When a person shall have been extradited by one of the High Contracting Parties, that person, until he has returned to the country from which he had been extradi ed, or until he has had opportunity of returning to it, shall not be detained or brought to justice in the State to which he has been handed over for any crime or on any other charge whatever prior to the extradition, except those in respect of which the extradition has been accorded.

Neither shall that person, until he has had an opportunity of returning to the country from which he has been extradited, be handed over to a third State.

ARTICLE 2.

The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London, as soon as possible.

It shall come into force ten days after its publication in the inanner prescribed by law in the respective countries, and shall have the same force and duration as the Treaty to which

it relates.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention, and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done, in duplicate. at London, the 3rd March, 1911.

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(L. s.) (L. s.)

E. GREY. LALAING.

And whereas the ratifications of the above Convention were exchanged at London on the 10th day of May, 1911;

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 25th day of August, 1911, the said Acts shall apply in the case of Belgium under and in accordance with the said I reaty of the 29th October, 1901, and the supplementary Conventions of the 5th March, 1907, and 3rd March, 1911:

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 I. of chapter 155 of "The Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906," and entitled "An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals, shall continue in force there, and no longer.

No. 308.

ALMERIC FITZROY.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

Regulation made by the Governor-in-Council under Section 5 of the Dogs Ordinance, 1893, (Ordinance No. 5 of 1893), this 10th day of October, 1911.

No dog brought from Shanghai will be permitted to land in this Colony for a period of six months from the 5th October, 1911.

10th Qctober, 1911.

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