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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 5, 1937.

TREATY BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY IN RESPECT OF

THE UNITED KINGDOM AND HIS SERENE HIGHNESS THE REGENT OF HUNGARY, SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE TREATY OF DECEMBER 3, 1873, REGARDING EXTRADITION.

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BUDAPEST, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936.

His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India and His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, desiring to make further provision for the reciprocal extra- dition of fugitive criminals, have resolved to conclude a Supplementary Treaty to this end and for this purpose have appointed as their plenipotentiaries :

His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India:

For Great Britain and Northern Ireland :

Sir GEOFFREY GEORGE KNOX, K.C.M.G., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Budapest;

His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom

of Hungary:

M. KÁLMÁN KÁNYA DE KÁNYA, Royal Hungarian

Minister for Foreign Affairs,

Who, having communicated to each other their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows:-

ARTICLE 1.

Article 2 of the Extradition Treaty signed at Vienna on the 3rd December, 1873, shall be amended by the addition of the following clause-

"Extradition may also be granted at the discretion of the High Contracting Party applied to in respect of any act, not being one in respect of which there is an obligation to grant extradition under the preceding provisions of this Article, but which is a crime or offence which is punishable, according to the laws of both of the High Contracting Parties for the time being in force, by not less than two years' im- prisonment, and for which, according to the said laws, the grant may be made.”

ARTICLE 2.

The foregoing amendment shall apply to extradition proceedings between Hungary on the one hand and, on the other hand, the following territories of His Majesty, that is to say, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Newfound- land, British Colonies, British Protectorates to which the Extradition Treaty of the 3rd December, 1873, applies, and mandated territories to which the said Treaty has been or may be extended, and in respect of which the mandate is exercised by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.