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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 3, 1939.

Any notice given under the first paragraph of this Article in respect of any Member of the British Commonwealth of Nations may include any territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted. by His Majesty the King and Emperor and is exercised by the Government of the Member concerned.

Article 4.

The ratifica-

The present Convention shall be ratified. tions shall be exchanged at London as soon as possible.

Article 5.

The present Convention shall enter into force three months after the exchange of ratifications, and shall have the same duration as the Extradition Treaty of the 31st March, 1873.

In faith whereof the above-named plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done in duplicate in English and Icelandic at London the 25th day of October, 1938.

[L.S.

HALIFAX,

[L.S. E. REVENTLOW,

AND WHEREAS the ratifications of the said supplementary Convention were exchanged at London on the 15th day of June, 1939:

AND WHEREAS His Majesty has ratified the said supple- mentary Convention in respect of, and the said Convention thereby extends to. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man. Newfoundland, and British Colonies :

NOW. THEREFORE, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to Him by the said recited Acts, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the 15th day of September, 1939, the said Acts shall apply in respect of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Newfoundland, and British Colonies in the case of Iceland under and in accordance with the said Treaty of the 31st March, 1873, as modified by the supple- mentary Convention of the 25th October, 1938.

This Order may be cited as the leeland (Extradition) Order in Council, 1989,

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Rupert B. Howorth,

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