TNAG-1825-FCO40-2592-Hong-Kong-and-the-UK-Criminal-Justice-Bill-Administration-of-1988 — Page 102

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

Telephone 01- 270 3066

JDM Rennie Esq

Office of the Parliamentary Counsel

36 Whitehall

London

SW1A 2AY

Your reference

Our reference

Date

9 May 1988

CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL : EXTRADITION

1.

We spoke about your letters of 16, 17 and 18 May and the further amendments you sent around on 18 May.

2. I would simply confirm, for the record, that we are now content with the amendment to the Civil Aviation Act 1982, and with clause 18 of the Bill as attached to your letter of 18 May. I also note and agree with the changes you have made in the first new clause (Application of general extradition arrangements to colonies).

3. As I mentioned to you, however, I do not think we need the second subsection in the second new clause. The procedures are to be available on an ad hoc and exceptional basis, and we want them to cover any situation that might so arise. If it is thought that a colony should never extradite to a particular State, I am inclined to think that this can be done by directions from the Secretary of State, or by administrative guidelines of that sort.

CC: Mr C Hum

HKD

Mr P Monk

NTD

Mr D Bentley

Home Office

Iain MacLeod Legal Advisers