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MR STUART

Reference HX 14/15.

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FUGITIVE OFFENDERS ACT (Your munte a

(Your munte of 1 November)

1. I have no comments on the submission and minute, with which I agree.

2. Purely in the interests of clarity for the recipients, I suggest the following amendments to the draft telegram:

a.

b.

Paragraph 1, lines 6 and 7:

the return

of a fugitive offender from the UK to a Dependent Territory unless the offence with ....";

Paragraph 2 to read: "Grateful if you would examine your laws and inform us of any provisions which create a criminal offence in your territory unknown to the law in England, and to which the double criminality rule would also apply, on the assumption that section 3(1)(b), which restricts return under the Act to offendes punishable with

12 months' imprisonment, would be retained."

J.S. Cuand

J S CHAMPION

Gibraltar & General Department

2 November 1973

cc:

Mr Rushford (Legal Advisers) Mr Richardson (NTD)

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