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Piso Kellung

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Thank you for your letter of 16 October about

the Godber case and the position regarding amendment

to the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1967. I am grateful

for your helpful interest in this problem.

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I enclose the relevant extract from the Governor's

speech to Legislative Council on 17 October dealing with

the recommendations of the Blair-Kerr Report. As the

Governor says in his speech, he is consulting us on the

many and complicated recommendations of the report. He

intends that proposals for action on these recommendations

should be announced during the motion of thanks in reply

to his address in Legislative Council on 14 November.

As I told you when we met in September, the

suggestion of amending the Fugitive Offenders Act poses

considerable problems. To amend the Act so as to render

Godber liable to extradition for the offence with which

he has been charged in Hong Kong would obviously be

difficult.

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Tom Pendry, Esq., MP.

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