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FUGITIVE OFFENDERS ACT 1967.

FUGITIVE OFFENDERS (UNITED KINGDOM

DEPENDENCIES) ORDER 1969.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2)(c) and (3) of the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 (as modified and adapted by the Fugitive Offenders (Hong Kong) Order 1967), the Governor. with the approval of the Secretary of State, bas made the follow- ing order-

1. This order may be cited as the Fugitive Offenders (United Kingdom Dependencies) Order 1969 and shall come into operation on 1st February 1969.

2. Section 2(2) of the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 (which defines the expression. “United Kingdom dependency”) shall apply to the countries specified in column 1 of the Schedule hereto (being countries outside Her Majesty's dominions in which Her Majesty has jurisdiction, or over which She extends protection, in right of Her Government in the United Kingdom),

3. In relation to the return of persons to, and in relation to persons returned from, a country specified in column 1 of the Schedule hereto, other than the British Solomon Islands Protec- torate, the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 shall have effect as if for any reference therein to the Governor there were substituted a reference to the person or government specified opposite to the country in question in column 2 of the said Schedule.

4. In relation to the return of persons to the New Hebrides. the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 shall have effect as if at the end of section 3(1) thereof (which defines a relevant offence for the purposes of the Act) there were added the following proviso--

"Provided that an offence of which a person is accused or has been convicted in the New Hebrides shall not be a relevant offence unless he is liable to be tried therefor or, as the case may be, has been convicted thereof, by the High Court of the Western Pacific or by the Joint Court established for the New Hebrides.",

(L.N. 12/68.)

Citation and Commencement.

Application to United Kingdom dependencies. Schedule

Construction of references to

the Governor.

Schedule,

Return of persons to New Hebrides.