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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 19, 1912.
The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal who has taken refuge in any of such Colonies or foreign possessions shall be made to the Governor or chief authority of such Colony or possession by the Chief consular officer of Greece in such Colony or possession.
Such requisition may be disposed of, subject always, as nearly as may be, to the provi- sions of this Treaty, by the said Governor or chief authority. He shall, however, be at liberty either to grant the surrender or to refer the matter to his Government.
His Britannic Majesty shall, however, be at liberty to make special arrangements in the British Colonies and foreign possessions for the surrender of criminals from Greece who may take refuge within such Colonies and foreign possessions, on the basis of the provisions of the present Treaty.
Requisitions for the surrender of fugitive criminal emanating from any Colony or foreign possession of His Britannic Majesty shall be governed by the rules laid down in the prece- ding Articles of the present Treaty.
ARTICLE 19.
The present Treaty shall come into operation ten days after its publication in conform- ity with the laws of the respective countries.
Crimes committed prior to the coming into force of the Treaty shall not form the sub- ject of an application for extradition except in cases in which the persons claimed shall have taken refuge in the territory of the State applied to after the exchange of ratifications.
Each of the Contracting Parties shall be at liberty at any time to denounce the present Treaty upon giving six months' notice to the other Party of its intention to do so.
It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Athens as soon as possi- ble.
Done in duplicate at Athens the twenty-fourth (eleventh) day of September, one thou- sand nine hundred and ten.
[L.S.] [L.S.]
FRANCIS E. H. ELLIOT. D. KALERGI.
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And whereas the ratifications of the said Treaty were exchanged at Athens on the 30th day of December, 1911;
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Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in vir- tue of the authority committed to him by the said recited Acts, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the 26th day of February, 1912, the said Acts shall apply in the case of Greece under and in accordance with the said Treaty of the 11th/24th September, 1910;
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. 122.
ALMERIC FITZROY.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
Regulation made by the Officer Administering the Government- in-Council under Section 39 (8) of the Merchant Shipping Ordi- nances, 1899 to 1911, on the 12th day of April, 1912.
Tables T and U introduced by the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 48 of 1911), and as amended by the Governor-in-Council on the 12th day of December, 1911, are hereby cancelled and the following substituted therefor.
R. H. CROFTON,
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
12th April, 1912.
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Clerk of Counciis.