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Office of the Parliamentary Counsel

36 Whitehall London SWIA 2AY

Telephone Direct line of 210 6639

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Iain MacLeod Esq

Legal Adviser's Department

Foreign and Commonwealth office

Downing Street

LONDON SW1

зтор HUD 370b

9 March 1988

Dear MacLeod,

CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL

EXTRADITION

APPLICATION TO COLONIES

Thank you for your letter of 8 March, about which we have spoken.

the powers of the United

Hence the proposition that

We quite appreciate your point that the

Kingdom government must be protected.

the governor "may exercise the powers of the Secretary of State" in subsection (3). This leaves open the possibility that the Secretary of State may step in himself, though obviously this

would be exceptional.

In

Secretary

subsection (4) the words "recognised by the governor" and

of State" are new. They are "recognised by the inspired by the phrase "recognised by the governor" in section.

17 (1) of the 1870 Act.

In subsection (6) the words "specified in the Order" When we spoke, you thought that they might be helpful.

are new.

There