THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 13, 1907.
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1. A fugitive criminal arrested under the terms of Article IV shall be discharged in the dominions of His Britannic Majesty if, within the period of two months from the date of his arrest, a request for his extradition shall not have been made by the Government of the requisitioning State.
The fugitive criminal may be discharged in the dominious of His Majesty the King of the Belgians if within the same period a request for his extradition has not been made by the Government of the requisitioning State; he shall be released if within seven days following the expiration of this period the warrant issued by the competent authority shall not have been communicated to the fugitive criminal.
2. The person arrested shall be set at liberty if, within the three months, counting from the date of arrest, sufficient evidence in support of the demand for extradition shall not have been produced.
ARTICLE II.
The present Convention shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London as soon as possible. It shall come into force ten days after its publication, in con- formity with the laws of the High Contracting Parties, and it shall have the same force and duration as the Treaty of Extradition to which it relates.
In witness whereof the Undersigned have signed the present Convention, and have affixed their seals thereto.
Done in duplicate at London, the 5th March, 1907.
(L.S.) E. GREY. (L.S.) LALAING.
And whereas the ratifications of the said Supplementary Convention were exchanged at London on the seventeenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and seven.
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to him by the said Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1906, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the nineteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the said Acts shall apply in the case of Belgium, under and in accordance with the said Treaty as supplemented by the said Convention above set forth:
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 1 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.
A. W. FITZROY.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No 603. His Majesty the KING has not been advised to exercise his power of dis- allowance with respect to the following Ordinances :-
Ordinance No. 7 of 1907, entitled—An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Bils
of Exchange.
Ordinance No. 8 of 1997, entitled—An Ordinance to amend the Public Health and
Buildings Ordinance, 1903.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
9th September, 1907.
R. H. CROFTON,
Clerk of Councils.