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Extradition Law in Colonies

1870

under the Imperial Act

was first introduced by the

New Zealand Act 38 Vict:

C.83.

MINUTE PAPER.

already contained in Imperial Act.

copy of which

was

transmitted to the Hong Kong Government in Lord Carnarvon's Despatch of the 15th May

and the Bill of the Hong

Kong Legislature

under

Consideration

now

was framed.

There

are

which

the

This better not

to specify the Victoria Gaol

as the

place of Imprisonment,

as the

Imperial Act enacts that any

prison in the Colony may be

used as

that

I would recommend

the

however

two or three modifications

to be made in it - namely

omission of Sections 2 and 4

their provisions

are

already

in

be

legal place of

imprisonment; and if

the Victoria Gaol

were

abandoned,

it would

be burnt down

a

new Ordinance

become necessary.

I think also the Preamble

might recite the precise object

of the

The Law

clearly

and

the

Suspending

Mint Section 3 which is

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