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FUGITIVE OFFENDERS ACT

19 OCT 1973

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Extract from Governor's speech to Legislative Council, 17 Oct:

"The Godber affair has highlighted the case for

amendment of the Fugitive Offenders Act, as recommended

by Sir Alastair Blair-Kerr. The requirement of double

criminality is hard to understand in the case of a

dependent territory such as Hong Kong. We feel sure

it was not H.M.G.'s intention in the Fugitive

Offenders Act to frustrate the intention of the laws

approved by HMG in Hong Kong."

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