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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Draft Bill.
No. S. 264.-The following bill, which it is proposed to introduce at the next meeting of the Legislative Council, is published for general information :-
C.S.O. 2570/21.
[No. 5-30.8.28.—3. j
A BILL
Short title.
Ordinance No. 7 of 1889.
Ordinance No. 17 of 1927.
Amendment of Ordinance No. 7 of 1889, 8. 2 (a), as enacted by Ordinance No. 17 of 1927, s. 2.
Amendment
of Ordinance
No. 7 of 1889, s. 2 (c), as amended by Ordinance No. 17 of 1927, s. 2.
Amendment
No. 7 of
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Chinese Extradi-
tion Ordinances, 1889 and 1927.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Chinese Extradi- tion Amendment Ordinance, 1928, and the Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1889, and the Chinese Extradition Amendment Ordinance, 1927, and this Ordinance, may be cited together as the Chinese Extradition Ordinances, 1889 to 1928.
2. Paragraph (a) of section 2 of the Chinese Extradi- tion Ordinance, 1889, as amended by section 2 of the Chinese Extradition Amendment Ordinance, 1927, is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted there- for :-
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(a) "Chinese authority means any person or persons or body declared by the Governor to be or on any given date to have been, or to represent on or on any given date to have represented, the person or persons or body actually exercising authority in any province or other area or place which in the opinion of the Governor forms or at any time has formed part of the Republic of China.
3. Paragraph (c) of section 2 of the Chinese Extradi- tion Ordinance, 1889, as amended by section 2 of the. Chinese Extradition Amendment Ordinance, 1927, is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted there- for :-
() "Fugitive criminal ” means any national of China accused of an extradition crime com- mitted within the jurisdiction of China, or on hoard a Chinese ship outside the waters of the Colony, or in any province or other area or place which in the opinion of the Governor forms or at at time bas formed part of the Republic of China, who is or is suspected of being in Hong Kong or on his way thither.
4. Paragraph (3) of section 4 of the Chinese Extra-
of Ordinance dition Ordinance, 1889, as amended by section 3 of the Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1927, is further amended by the substitution of the words :—
1889, s. 4 (3), as amended by Ordinance No. 17 of 1927, s. 3.
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 7 of 1889, s. 6,
as amended
other than the extradition crime or crimes proved by the facts on which surrender is grounded.
for the words :-
other than the extradition crime on which the surrender is demanded.
5. Section 6 of the Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1889, as amended by section 4 of the Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1927, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-
by Ordinance Requisition'
No. 17 of 1927, s. 4.
and order to magistrate.
6. Whenever a requisition for the surrender to Governor of a fugitive criminal is made to the Governor by any person or persons or body that the Governor has previously declared, or proposes to declare, to be or to represent or on any