ORDINANCE No. 11 or 1875 . 1389
Extradition.
Powers of the
3. All powers vested in, or acts authorised or required to be done.
Police Magis
under " The Extradition Acts , 1870 and 1873 " by the Police Magistrate , trate to beby
exercised
in relation to the surrender of a fugitive criminal, may , in respect to this the Police
Magistrates of
Colony , be exercised and done by any Police Magistrate of the Colony. the Colony.
Gaol.
4. Victoria Gaol shall be a prison for the purposes of this Ordinance
and " The Extradition Acts , 1870 and 1873."
Commence
5. This Ordinance shall take effect on a day to be hereafter proclaimed ment.
by the Governor.
[In force from the 18th September, 1875, by proclamation of the 16th September, 1875,
proclaimed also to be inforce from 10th April, 1876, by proclamation ofsame date . ]
Order of Her Majesty in Council dated the 20th day of March, 1877.
Whereas by section 18 of " The Extradition Act, 1870, " it is, among other things,
"enacted , that if by any law made before or after the passing of the said Act by the
"Legislature of any British possession provision is made for carrying into effect within
"such possession the surrender of fugitive criminals who are in or suspected of being in
"such British possession, Her Majesty may, by the Order in Council applying the said
"Act in the case of any Foreign State or by any subsequent order, either
" Suspend the operation within any such British possession of the said Act, or
"of any part thereof, so far as it relates to such Foreign State, and so long
"as such law continues in force there, and no longer :
"Or direct that such law or Ordinance, or any part thereof, shall have effect in
" such British possession, with or without modifications and alterations, as
"if it were part of the said Act : "
And whereas by a certain Ordinance enacted in the year 1875 by the Governor of
Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, and numbered 11 of the
said year, the short title of which is " The Extradition Ordinance ( Hongkong) , 1875,"
provision is made that all powers vested in, or acts authorized or required to be done,
under the Acts of the Imperial Parliament known as the " Extradition Acts, 1870 and
1873," by the Secretary of State or by the Police Magistrate, in relation to the surrender
of a fugitive criminal , which by the said Imperial Acts are in respect of British possessions
vested in or required to be done by the Governor alone, may, in respect of the Colony of
Hongkong, be exercised and done by the Governor or the Police Magistrate of the Colony
respectively :
And whereas the said Ordinance has been confirmed and allowed by Her Majesty :
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of " The Extradition Act, 1870, " and in
exercise of the power in that behalf in the said Act contained, doth by this present order,
by and with the advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council, direct that the said " Extradition
Ordinance (Hongkong) , 1875 ," shall have effect in the Colony of Hongkong, without
modification or alteration, as if it were part of " The Extradition Act , 1870. "
And the Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon, one of Her Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.