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CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL

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29 March 1988

EXTRADITION

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We have had a helpful letter of 25 March from MacLeod. I see

that he sent you a copy. We entirely agreed with everything he

said, and have revised our amendments accordingly. This has

actually meant a fair amount of re-arrangement.

In particular we take the point that arrangements under the 1870

Act will go on. Orders in Council under section 2 can no longer

be made, because of clause 1(6). But that preserves existing

Orders. Where one is concerned with an international Convention,

the oddity about an 1870 order is that the list of extradition

crimes is very short. But they are still in the same position,

by virtue of clause 1(6), as Orders with the full list of

extradition crimes. It seemed to us to be as well to alter the

phrase "is applied" to "has been applied", just to make it quite

clear that there really can be no new Orders.

The page and line references to the amendments are now of course

to the text of the Bill as amended in Standing Committee.

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