REC
C
62383
REG 20DEC17]
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ASA
28/12/17
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Draft Order in Council (Grouping India Ceylon
,under
Hong Kong Straits and the Falay States &c.,
Part II.of the Fugitive Offenders Act,1861.)
WHEREAS by an Order of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria in Council bearing date the
twelfth day of December 1885 it was ordered that
Part II of the Fugitive Offenders Act,1881,
should apply to the group of British possessions
therein mentioned that is to say, Her Majesty's
East Indian territories, Ceylon and the Straits
Settlements.
AND WHEREAS by a further Order of Her
Eajesty Queen Victoria in Council also bearing
date the twelfth day of December 1885 it was
ordered that Part II of the Fugitive Offenders
Act, 1681, should apply to the group of British
possessions therein mentioned, that is to say
the Straits Settlements, Hong Kong and Labuan;
AND WHEREAS under and by virtue of
October
Letters Patent dated the thirtieth day of October
of the Colony 1906, the boundaries/of the Straits Settlements
were extended so as to include the Colony of
Labuan