Fugitive Offenders (Extension) Order 1967
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1967 No. 1303
FUGITIVE CRIMINAL
The Fugitive Offenders (Extension) Order 196731stAugust 1967
1stSeptember 1967
2ndSeptember 1967
At the Court at Balmoral, the 31st day of August 1967
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 17 and 20 of the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967(a), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows :—
Citation, commencement and application.
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Fugitive Offenders (Extension) Order 1967.
(2) This Order shall come into operation on 2nd September 1967.
(3) In its application to the New Hebrides and Swaziland this Order shall have effect to the extent only of Her Majesty's jurisdiction.
Interpretation.
2.—(1) In this Order—
" Act " means the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 ;
" country " includes any territory ;
" dealt with " means tried or returned or surrendered to any country or detained with a view to trial or with a view to such return or surrender ;
" Governor ", in relation to any country other than a country mentioned in subsection (2) of this section means the person or persons administering the government of that country ;
" Schedule 2 " means Schedule 2 to this Order ;
" United Kingdom dependency " means—
(a) any colony (not being a colony for whose external relations a country other than the United Kingdom is responsible) ;
(b) any associated state within the meaning of the West Indies Act 1967(b) ; and
(c) any country outside Her Majesty's dominions (being a country in which Her Majesty has jurisdiction, or over which She extends protection, in right of Her Government in the United Kingdom) to which Her Majesty has by Order in Council, whether before or after the commencement of this Order, applied section 2(2) of the Act,
not being in any case a country which is or forms part of a designated Commonwealth country.
(a) 1967 c. 68.
(b) 1967 c. 4.
(2) In this Order references to Governor shall be construed :—
(a) in relation to the New Hebrides as references to Her Majesty's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific and, to the extent that authority to perform functions under Schedule 1 to this Order may be assigned by the High Commissioner to the Resident Commissioner for the New Hebrides, to the Resident Commissioner ;
(b) in relation to Swaziland as references to Her Majesty's Commissioner for Swaziland.
(3) Where Her Majesty has by...
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