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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935.
ARTICLE 1.
From the date of the coming into force of the present Convention Article 2 of the Extradition Treaty signed at Berne on the 26th November, 1880, shall be amended by the addition of the following clause:
"Extradition may also be granted at the discretion of the High Contracting Party applied to in respect of any other crime or offence for which, according to the laws of both of the High Contracting Parties for the time being in force, the grant may be made.”
ARTICLE 2.
The foregoing amendment shall apply to extradition proceedings between Switzerland on the one hand and, on the other hand, the following territories of His Majesty, that is to say, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Newfoundland, British Colonies, British Protectorates to which the Extradition Treaty of the 26th November, 1880, applies, and mandated territories to which the said Treaty has been or may be extended, and in respect of which the mandate is exercised by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
ARTICLE 3.
The High Contracting Parties agree that His Majesty the King may accede to the present Convention in respect of any other members of the British Commonwealth of Nations, whose Government may desire that such accession be effected, by a notice given to that effect by the appropriate diplomatic representative of His Majesty at Berne. From the date that such notice. comes into effect the amendment set forth in Article 1 shall apply to extradition proceedings between Switzerland on the one hand, and the territory of the member of the Commonwealth concerned on the other hand.
Any notice given under the first paragraph of this Article in respect of any member of the British Common- wealth of Nations may include any territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Majesty and is exercised by the Govern- ment of the member concerned.
ARTICLE 4.
The present Convention shall be ratified. The ratifica- tions shall be exchanged in London as soon as possible.
ARTICLE 5.
The present Convention shall enter into force three months after the exchange of ratifications and shall have the same duration as the Extradition Treaty of the 26th November, 1880.
In faith whereof the above-named Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and have affixed thereto their seals.
Done in duplicate in English and French at Berne the nineteenth day of December nineteen hundred and thirty- four.
(L.S.) H. W. KENNARD.
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