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Next there is a small point on the amendments about aviation.

For each of the two Acts we have to have a preliminary amendment,

in order to ensure that the definitions are attracted properly.

You commented

this on

in paragraph 3(a) of your letter, in

connection with the Aviation Security Act. The preliminary

amendments need to be picked up in

in the provisions about the

colonies. So there are two

additions to what you had

previously.

Parliament has passed a number of Acts to give international

conventions the force of law in the United Kingdom. We are busy

amending their

The convention about

extradition provisions.

torture has so far not been given effect.

effect in the present Bill.

this convention must be the

others.

But we are giving it

It seems to us that what we do for

same as what we are doing for the

As a matter of form there is inevitably a little

difference, simply because torture is in the current Bill and not

in past legislation. But it seems pretty clear to us that, if we

alter the draft

for the Internationally Protected

amendments

Persons Act and the others that go with it, we have to make

corresponding alterations

for torture.

I therefore enclose

drafts about torture. We understand that the main clause is

So it is purely on the extradition side that there

satisfactory.

is any outstanding difficulty.

I am sending copies of this letter and of your amendments to

Bentley, Kowalski and Erskine. I am also sending them to Aust

and Mrs Evans, who are respectively dealing with torture at your