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Mr. David Edwards

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

c/o United Nations Desk

852 5 869 0720 P.01

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS

4/F., HIGH BLOCK

QUEENSWAY GOVERNMENT OFFICES 66 QUEENSWAY, HONG KONG

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14 June 1989

Dear Mr. Edwards,

Meeting of Senior Officials from Law Ministries

London 19-23 June 1989

further to our telephone conversation I should be grateful if you could provide assistance in relation

the following questions

to

to

of the brief of the Hong Kong delegation

facilitate

preparation

introduce

the (a) does

UK have

to any proposals Mutual Legal Assistance legislation

(b) is it

it intended to extend the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 to all crime

(c) does

have UK

introduce

the

to any proposals legislation in accordance with the Harare scheme on the Transfer of Convicted Offenders or is it intended to enter into bilateral agreements with other Commonwealth countries pursuant to It is assumed the Repatriation of Prisoners Act.

the

not scheme would

be regarded

within an 'international arrangment' meaning of that Act.

that

as

Harare scheme

the

Yours sincerely,

ده

(JM Hunter) Senior/Crown Counsel