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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 14, 1928. 531

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 657.-The following Order of His Majesty in Council, which appeared in the London Gazette of the 24th July, 1928, is published for general information.

Belgium (Extradition) Order in Council, 1928.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 13TH DAY OF JULY, 1928.

PRESENT:

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN.

SECRETARY SIR W. JOYNSON-HICKS.

SECRETARY SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,

SECRETARY SIR J. GILMOUR.

EARL GRANVILLE.

SIR WILLIAM TYRRELL.

WHEREAS other things enacted that, where an arrangement

HEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 (33 & 31 Vict. c. 52) to 1906 (6 Edw.

has been made with any foreign State with respect to the surrender to such State of any fugitive criminals, His Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that the said Acts shall apply in the case of such foreign State; and that His Majesty may, by the same or any subsequent Order, limit the operation of the Order, and restrict the same to fugitive criminals who are in or suspected of being in the part of His Maje-ty's dominions speci- fied in the Order, and render the operation thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions and qualifications as may be deemed expedient :

And whereas notes were exchanged on June 28/July 2, 1928, between His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and His Excellency the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and His Majesty the King of the Belgians, extending inter alia the provisions of the Extradition Treaty of October 29, 1901, and the Conven- tions supplementary thereto of March 5, 1907, and March 3, 1911, to the territories of Ruanda-Urundi, subject to the conditions set forth in Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention of August 8, 1923, the terms of which notes are as follows:-

Foreign Office, S.W.1.

28th Junc, 1928.

YOUR EXCELLENCY,

By the Convention signed at London on August 8th, 1923, the provisions of the Extradition Treaty between Great Britain and Belgium of October 29th, 1901, and the Conventions supplementary thereto of March 5th, 1907, and March 3rd, 1911, were extended to the Belgian Congo and certain named British protectorates. It was further provided that if, after the signature of that Convention, it was considered advisible to extend its provisions to British protectorates other than those mentioned, or to territories in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Britannic Majesty, then, after agreement arrived at between the respective Govern- ments, its provisions should apply also to these other protectorates, or to such territories, from the date prescribed in the notes to be exchanged for the purpose of effecting such

extension.