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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 13, 1934.

No. 286.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

It is hereby notified for general information that by the Poland (Extradition) Order in Council, 1934, dated the 26th day of February, 1984, His Majesty in Council has directed that from and after the 12th day of March, 1934, the Ex- tradition Acts, 1870 (33-4 V. c. 52), to 1932 (22-3 Geo. V. c. 39), shall apply in respect of all British Colonies in the case of Poland under and in accordance with a Treaty signed on the 11th day of January, 1982, between His Majesty and the President of the Republic of Poland for the mutual ex- tradition of fugitive criminals.

Article 3 of the Treaty is as follows:-

"Extradition shall be reeiprocally granted for the follow- ing crimes or offences when they are punishable in accordance with the laws of both the High Contracting Parties (that is to say, in Poland, in accordance with the laws of at least one of the Provinces of Poland) :-

1. Murder (including assassination, parricide, murder of relations, infanticide, poisoning), or attempt or conspiracy to murder.

2. Manslaughter.

3. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of women,

4. Rape.

5. Unlawful carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have unlawful carnal knowledge, of a girl under 16 years

of age.

6. Indecent assault.

7. Kidnapping or false imprisonment.

8. Child stealing, including abandoning, exposing or unlawfully detaining.

9. Abduction.

10. Procuration; that is to say, the offences enumerated in Articles 1 and 2 of the International Convention for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic concluded at Paris on the 4th May, 1910.

11. Bigamy.

12. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.

13. Threats, by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort money or other things of value.

14. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.

15. Arson.

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