THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 29,
1911.
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Who, having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles :-
ARTICLE 1.
The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other persons over whom they respectively exercise jurisdiction who, being accused or convicted of a crime or offence committed in the territory of the one Party, shall be found within the territory of the other Party, under the circumstances and conditions stated in the present Treaty.
ARTICLE 2.
The crimes or offences for which the extradition is to be granted are the following:-
1. Murder, or attempt, or conspiracy to murder. 2. Manslaughter.
3. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
grievous bodily harm.
Malicious wounding or inflicting
4. Counterfeiting or altering money, or uttering counterfeit or altered money.
5. Knowingly making any instrument, tool, or engine adapted or intended for
counterfeiting coin.
6. Forgery, counterfeiting, or altering or uttering what is forged or counterfeited
or altered.
7. Embezzlement or larceny.
8. Malicious injury to property, by explosive or otherwise, if the offence be
indictable.
9. Obtaining money, goods, or valuable securities by false pretences.
10. Receiving money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to
have been stolen, embezzled, or unlawfully obtained.
11. Crimes against bankruptcy law.
12. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, or director, or member or public officer of any company made criminal by any law for the time being in force.
13. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
14. Rape.
15. Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under the
age of puberty, according to the laws of the respective countries.
16. Indecent assault.
17. Procuring miscarriage, administering drugs, or using instruments with intent to
procure the miscarriage of a woman.
18. Abduction.
19. Child stealing.
20. Abandoning children, exposing or unlawfully detaining them.
21. Kidnapping and false imprisonment.
22. Burglary or housebreaking.
23. Arson.
24. Robbery with violence.
25. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any person in a
railway train.
26. Threats by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort.
27. Piracy by law of nations.
28. Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting or conspiring to do so.
29. Assaults on board ship on the high seas, with intent to destroy life, or do griev-
ous bodily harm.
30. Revolt, or conspiracy to revolt, by two or more persons on board a ship on the
high seas against the authority of the master.
31. Dealing in slaves in such a manner as to constitute a criminial offence against
the laws of both States.
Extradition is to be granted for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both contracting Parties.