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Office of the Parliamentary Counsel 36 Whitehall London SWIA 2AY Telephone Direct line of 2106639

Switchboard o1 210 3000

Iain MacLeod Esq

Legal Adviser's Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Downing Street

LONDON SW1

Dear MacLeod,

CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL

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EXTRADITION

18 May, 1988

I enclose yet another revised version of the drafts which I last

sent you with my letter of 17 May. The revisions are due to our

telephone conversation of that date. I am sending copies of them

and of this letter to Bentley, Kowalski and Erskine.

paragraph (aa) for

You first asked us to alter the new

clause 18 (4) in the manner suggested as the second alternative in

my letter of 16 May. We have done this. But it seems clear to

us that we needed to do a little more. In all cases there is a

possibility that the relevant legislation will not apply in full.

We have not previously managed to bring this out.

Your other point has also stimulated further alterations.

drew our attention to clause 164 (1). You pointed out that the

reference to clause 20 ought to be to the two new clauses.

we then realised that there was a bit more to this.

You

But

Clause 164(1) is about extent. The first of the

new

clauses

dealt with extent.

The second had failed to do

so.

It now