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Paragraph 3

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(1)

In section 6 (general restrictions on return), there shall be inserted immediately following subsection (1) the following subsection:

“(2)

A person who is alleged to be unlawfully at large after conviction of an extradition crime shall not be returned to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region or committed or kept in custody for the purposes of return to that Region if it appears to an appropriate authority—

(a)

that the conviction was obtained in his absence; and

(b)

that it would not be in the interests of justice to return him on the ground of that conviction.”.

(3)

In subsections (4) and (7), after the words “British overseas territory” there shall be inserted the words “or with the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region”.