CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936 — Page 37

Convention Article No.

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Table,-Continued.

Remarks.

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Part II.

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Acts orders for examination of witnesses in the Colony in relation to proceedings abroad, includ- ing criminal proceedings, may be made under Part IV of Ordinance No. 2 of 1889 and section 326A of Ordinance No. 3 of 1901. No local legislation appears necessary to implement the Article.

This Article contains a formal saving to the effect that the participation of a High Contracting Party in the Convention shall not be interpreted as affecting that Party's attitude on the general question of criminal jurisdiction as a question of international law.

No legislation is required to give effect to this Article.

This Article provides that the Convention does not affect the principle that the offences referred to in Article 3 should in each country, without ever being allowed impunity, be defined, prosecuted and punished in conformity with the general rules of its domestic law.

This Article contains a formal saving and no legis-

lation is required to give effect to it.

This Part of the Convention contains the ordinary diplomatic provisions as to settlement of inter- national disputes, ratification and accession.

The only Article which requires comment is Article 24 under which the High Contracting Parties reserve the right to accede to the Convention in accordance with the provisions of Articles 21 and 23 for their colonies, protectorates or ter- ritories under suzereignty, or mandate. Article 21 deals with the transmission of instruments of accession to the Secretary General of the League of Nations. Article 23 provides that accession implies that the legislation and ad- ministrative organisation of the party concerned are in conformity with the rules contained in the Convention.

In the United Kingdom the requirements of this Article have been implemented by the Act of 1935, the only section of which that extends outside the United Kingdom is section 4 which amends the Extradition Act, 1870, and by virtue of section 17 of that Act extends to this Colony.

The new Ordinance makes the amendments in the local law which are deemed necessary to imple- ment the Convention so that accession can be effected.

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