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Office of the Parliamentary Counsel

36 Whitehall London SW1A 2AY Telephone Direct line of 210.6639

Switchboard 01 210 3000

Iain Macleod, Esq

Legal Adviser

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Downing Street

SW1A 2AL

Dear Macleod,

CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL

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EXTRADITION

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10 February 1988

Thank you for sending me a copy of your letter of 5 February to

Bentley.

So far as we can see, the only paragraph in it on which we need

You and I spoke about this on

comment is

paragraph

6.

We

5 February. We have given the problem some further thought.

appreciate that you will need to discuss it with Fifoot, when he

returns. I am sending him and Bentley a copy of this letter.

In paragraph 6 of your letter you suggest that subsection (3) of

the new clause should read

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(3) The powers of the Secretary of State may be

exercised by the Governor.

You pointed out to me when we spoke that this brought the

language nearer to the language used in the 1870 Act.

Section

17(1) of that Act says

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