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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