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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for [WRITTEN answer on4 February 1974

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The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

/lan Monday 4/2-.

La Mr Ray Carter (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of Staté for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the rules for extradition between Hong Kong and the UK; and if he will state on how many occasions they have been used over the past five years.

Mr Blaker

Extradition arrangements between Hong Kong and the

United Kingdom are governed by the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 as applied and modified by the Fugitive Offenders

(Hong Kong) Order 1967.

During the last five years the figures of applications

for return from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom were as

N11: 1970 Nil: 1971 1 application

t'ollows:

1969

1973

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nil

successful: 1972 1 application which was withdrawn

following the voluntary return of the fugitive:

There were no applications under the Fugitive Offenders

Act for any returns to Hong Kong from the United Kingdom

over the same period.