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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 7, 1938.

No. 11.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

The following Order of His Majesty in Council is published for general information.

7th January, 1938.

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 29TH DAY OF JULY, 1937.

Present,

The King's Most Excellent Majesty.

Viscount Dawson of Penn.

Lord President.

Marquess of Zetland.

Sir George Rankin.

WHEREAS it is provided by section I of the Fugitive Offenders (Protected States) Act, 1915, 5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 39, that His Majesty, by Order in Council, may direct that the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, 44 & 45 Vict., c. 69, shall apply as if, subject to the conditions, exceptions and qualifications (if any) contained in the Order, any place over which His Majesty extends His protection, named in the Order, were a British possession and may provide for the carrying into effect of such application:

AND WHEREAS the Pudukkottai State is a place over which His Majesty extends His protection :

NOW, THEREFORE, His Majesty, by virtue of the powers in this behalf conferred by the Fugitive Offenders Acts, 1881 and 1915, and otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-

1. This Order may be cited as "The Pudukkottai State (Fugitive Offenders) Order in Council, 1937.”

2. Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881 (hereinafter in this Order referred to as the said Act), shall apply as if the Pudukkottai State were a British Possession.

3. The said Act shall apply to the Pudukkottai State, subject to the following conditions, exceptions and qualifica- tions, namely:-

(a) Part II and sections 20 and 21 of the said Act shall not apply;

(b) the said Act shall not be applicable for the purpose of the apprehension and return from Pudukkottai to any other part of India or from any other part of India to Pudukkottai of any fugitive offender accused of having committed an offence in any other part of India or in Pudukkottai as the case may be;