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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 27, 1920.
PROCLAMATIONS.
No. 3.
[L.S.]
R. E. STUBBS,
Governor,
By His Excellency Sir REGINALD EDWARD STUBBS Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas by the nineteenth section of the Macao Extradition Ordinance, 1881, it is enacted that in case the Governor in Council deems it expedient that the said Ordinance should be repealed it shall be lawful for the Governor by proclamation to declare that it is repealed:
And whereas I Sir REGINALD EDWARD STUBBS with the advice of the Executive Council of the Colony of Hongkong do deem it expedient that the said Ordinance should be repealed:
Now therefore I Sir REGINALD EDWARD STUBBS Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same do hereby by this proclamation declare that the Macao Extradition Ordinance, 1881, is repealed.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hongkong, this 27th day of August, 1920.
By Command,
A. G. M. FLETCHER, Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
NOTE.-The Macao Extradition Ordinance, 1881, was evidently intended as a temporary measure pending the conclusion of the treaty between Great Britain and Portugual which was then under negotiation, and it seems probable that the unusual power of repeal given to the Governor in Council by section 19 of the Ordinance was intended to be used upon the conclusion of the treaty. This appears to have been overlooked when the treaty was concluded and brought into force in 1894. It is inconvenient to have a special set of rules for the single case of extradition to Macao, and the proce- dure of the Ordinance is also inferior in certain respects to the procedure of the general extradition law which will apply when the Ordinance is repealed. For example, there is no provision for the issue of any warrant of arrest before the receipt of a formal requisition. The Ordinance has there- fore been repealed.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
No. 442.
The Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, Ordinance No. 10 of 1899, Table L,
Quarantine Regulations.
It is hereby proclaimed by order of His Excellency the Governor in Council that Saigon is a place at which an infectious or contagious disease prevails.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
26th August, 1920.
W. J. CARRIE,
Clerk of Councils.