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Dear James,
CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL EXTRADITION
21
March 1988
and our
We have for some time been aware of the need to do something
about the relationship between Part Ι of the Bill
obligations to extradite (or prosecute)
international conventions.
under
various
Because the United Kingdom will not have extradition arrangements
under the 1870 Act with all the foreign States which are parties
to these conventions, a standard provision is included in our
implementing legislation which permits the application of the
1870 Act to offences under the convention in question.
Section
3 (3) of the Taking of Hostages Act 1982 (c.28) is an example.
Japan would be a country benefiting from such a provision.
As they stand, these provisions will be unsatisfactory once Part
I of the Bill is law. They do not make any reference to it,
which will puzzle the reader. And they will keep the 1870 Act in
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