Rights, as its Chairman-Rapporteur. In 1961 the Committee, upon the suggestion of the Chairman-Rapporteur, decided to separate the office of Rapporteur from that of Chairman, and elected Mr. B. W. W. Walke (Pakistan) s Rapporteur. Mr. John P. Humphrey, Director of the Division of Human Rights, represented the Secretary-General, and Mr. M. Tardu acted as secretary of the Committee.
MEETINGS AND REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE
4. The Committee met in twenty formal meetings; at other times the members of the Committee held informal consultations. The Committee submitted a preliminary report to the thirteenth session of the Commission and progress reports to the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth sessions. These reports, of which the Commission took note after brief discussions, are contained in documents E/CN.4/739, 763, 779 and Add. 1, and 799,
5. A substantive_report (E/CN.4/813 and Corr. 1, English only) was submitted by the Committee to the Commission at its seventeenth session. The Commission, after a preliminary discussion of the report, decided in resolution 2 (XVII) to transmit it to the Governments of Member States and members of the specialized agencies for their comments and requested the Committee to revise the report in the light of the comments to be submitted by Governments and of any additional information, especially information concerning new Member States. The Committee was further requested to include in its revised report draft principles on the right of everyone to be free from arbitrary arrest, detention and exile.
6. Observations on the report (E/CN.4/813 and Corr.1, English only) were received from the following Governments: Australia, Bulgaria, Central African Republic, Ceylon, Chile, China, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand, United Arab Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Yugoslavia. The Governments of Argentina, Finland, India and the Republic of Viet-Nam stated that they had no comments on the report of the Com- mittee.
7. The present revised report has been prepared by the Committee in accordance with the Commission's request. The report follows generally the outline which the Committee presented to the Commission at its four- teenth session (E/CN.4/763). Part I deals with fundamental or constitutional principles relating to arrest, detention and exile and independence of the judiciary. Part II covers the procedures under which a person suspected or accused of a criminal offence may be arrested or detained, the rights and privileges of a person under arrest or detention, and remedies and sanctions against arbitrary arrest or detention. Part III discusses briefly certain cate- gories of civil and administrative detention. Part IV deals with arrest and detention in emergency or exceptional situations. Part V devoted to the question of exile and banishment. Part VI contains draft ¡nciples of the right of everyone to be free from arbitrary arrest and detention.
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