THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 21, 1928 507
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department.
No. 675. The following Order of His Majesty in Council, which appeared in the London Gazette of the 24th July, 1928, is published for general information.
14th December, 1928.
France (Extradition) Order in Council, 1928.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 13TH DAY OF JULY, 1928.
PRESENT:
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN.
SE CRETARY SIR W. JOYNSON-HICKS.
SECRETARY SIR J. GILMOUR.
EARL GRANVILLE.
SECRETARY SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN. SIR WILLIAM TYRRELL.
WE
HEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 52) to 1906 (6 Edw. VII, e. 15), it was amongst other things enacted that, where an arrangement has been made with any foreign State with respect to the surrender to such State of any fugitive criminals, His Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that the said Acts shall apply in the case of such foreign State; and that His Majesty may, by the same or any subsequent Order, limit the operation of the Order, and restrict the same to fugitive criminals who are in or suspected of being in the part of His Majesty's dominions speci- fied in the Order, and render the operation thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions and qualifications as may be deemed expedient :
And whereas notes were exchanged on September 21/November 13, 1923, between H. M. Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and His Excellency the French Ambassador, the provisious of the Treaty between Her late Majesty and the President of the French Republic of August 14, 1876, and the Additional Conventious of October 17, 1908, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, were extended to the territories of the Cameroons and Togoland, in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by the French Republic, the terms of which notes are as follows:
FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W. 1,
21st September, 1923.
YOUR EXCELLENCY,
By notes exchanged between His Majesty's Ambassador at Paris and the French Government on August 16th/October 15th, 1909, the provisions of the Extradition Treaty between Great Britain and France of August 14th, 1876, and the additional Convention of October 17th, 1908, were extended to certain named British protectorates in Africa, the natives of those protectorates being for this purpose regarded as assimilated to British. subjects.
2. It now appears desirable to extend in like manner the provisions of the aforesaid treaties to the territories of the Cameroons, Togoland and Tanganyika, in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Britannic Majesty, and to the territories of the Cameroons and Togoland in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by the French Republie, the natives of those territories being regarded for this purpose as assimilated to British. subjects and French subjects respectively.