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No. S. 41. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 21st February, 1918:-
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to repeal the Malay States Ex-
tradition Ordinance, 1903.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Malay States Short title. Extradition Ordinance Repeal Ordinance, 1918.
2. The Malay States Extradition Ordinance, 1903, in Repeal of so far as it has not been repealed by the Malay States Ordinance Extradition Amendment Ordinance, 1917, is hereby No. 4 of repealed.
1903.
Ordinanco No. 7 of 1917.
Objects and Reasons.
1. The Malay States Extradition Ordinance, 1903, Ordinance No. 4 of 1903, provided for the surrender of fugitive criminals from any of the Malay States, the term Malay States being defined as meaning any one of the following states, i.e., Perak, Selangor, Pahang, Negri Sembilan, Kelantan, Trengganu, Kedah, and Perlis. This special provision was necessary because the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, 44 and 45 Vic. c. 69, applied only to fugitive offenders from places within His Majesty's Dominions, and did not apply to fugitive offenders from Protected States.
2. The Fugitive Offenders (Protected States) Act, 1915, 5 and 6 Geo. 5, c. 39, gave His Majesty power to apply the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, to Protectorates by means of an Order in Council. An Order in Council made under this Act was published in the London Gazelle of the 27th October, 1916, by which the Act in question was made to apply to the States named in the Schedule to the Order. The States named were the Federated Malay States, Johore, Kedah and Perlis, Kelantan, Brunei and North Borneo. The Order was intituled the Straits Settlements and Protected States Fugitive Offenders Order in Council, 1916. This Order in Council was published in the Hongkong Gazette of the 15th December, 1916.
3. The Order provided that it should come into force on such day as might be notified in the London Gazette. A notification was accordingly published in the London Gazette of the 23rd January, 1917, bringing the Order into force on the 1st February, 1917. This notification was reprinted in the Hongkong Gazette of the 27th April,
1917.
4. The result of the above Order in Council and notification was that the Hougkong Malay States Extra- dition Ordinance, 1903, became unnecessary except as regards the State of Trengganu. Accordingly the Malay States Extradition Amendment Ordinance, 1917, Ordi- nance No. 7 of 1917, was passed to repeal the former Ordinance except in so far as it applied to Trengganu. The Order in Council and notification also rendered unnecessary the Hongkong North Borneo Extradition Ordinance, 1896, Ordinance No. 1 of 1896, which was accordingly repealed by the North Borneo Extradition Ordinance, 1917, Ordinance No. 16 of 1917.