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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

For WRITTEN ANSWER on

15/6/89

Head of FD HKD

Please submit :-

a draft Answer & background to Parliamentary Unit

before

SERIAL NO;1928

TEXT OF QUESTION :-

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to P/S

MR. EGGAR

(Minister)

for approval by

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M15 JUN 1989

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REPLY (s)

MR CHRIS SMITH (ISLINGTON SOUTH AND FINSBURY)

To ask the Secretary of State/HMG;

whether he will suspend all extradition of prisoners to Hong Kong, where there is a possibility of the extradited person being handed over to the People's Republic of China authorities on 1st July 1997; and if he will make a statement.

for answer by

MR. EGGAR

(Minister)

ANSWER:

At Won

MkD 384/13

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We have no plans to suspend the return of fugitives to Hong Kong. My t on Friend the Home Secretary can only order the return of a fugitive when all

court proceedings in the UK have been concluded.

If a fugitive offender is returned to, Hong Kong under

That

the Fugitive Offenders Act before 1997,) would for an offence against Hong Kong laws.

be a matter for the Hong Kong courts. It would not

be for offences against the laws of the PRC.Under

the Joint Declaration, Hong Kong will retain its separate legal system after 1997, and will not be

relying on the PRC Criminal Code.

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