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Office of the Parliamentary Counsel 36 Whitehall London SWIA 2AY Telephone Direct line or 210 6539

Switchboard of 210 3000

DJ Bentley Esq

Legal Adviser's Branch

HID

Home Office

50 Queen Anne's Gate

London SW1H 9AT

370/2

21 April 1968

CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL

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EXTRADITION

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APPLICATION ΤΟ CHANNEL ISLANDS, ISLE OF MAN AND COLONIES INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS

I sent you some amendments on 15 April. On the same date I sent

Mrs Evans amendments about torture. One of her clauses concerns

In the draft of 15 April

There were provisions

extradition under Part I of the Bill.

subsection (3) of that clause provided that an Order in Council

was not to exclude clause 6 (8) (a).

corresponding to this in most of the clauses about international

Conventions. On 20 April I sent Mrs Evans revised versions of

her amendments. It appeared to me that it would be better to

avoid the somewhat oblique reference to clause 6(8) (a) and spell

out what we really mean.

extradition is therefore in a new form. The corresponding

Subsection (3) of her clause about

subsections in your drafts need to be

be in line.

I

therefore

enclose revised drafts and am sending copies of them and of this

letter to MacLeod, Kowalski and Erskine.

J D M RENNIE

ENC