Statutory Instruments
2002 No. 1824
HONG KONG
EXTRADITION
The Extradition (Overseas Territories) (Hong Kong) Order 2002
Made
16th July 2002
Laid before Parliament
26th July 2002
Coming into force
16th August 2002
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 16th day of July 2002
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by paragraph 3(2) of the Schedule to the Hong Kong Act 1985( 1 ), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Extradition (Overseas Territories) (Hong Kong) Order 2002.
(2) This Order shall come into force on 16th August 2002.
2. There shall be inserted after subsection (2) of section 32 of the Extradition Act 1989( 2 ) the following subsection:
“ (2A) An Order in Council under this section may make such provision as appears to Her Majesty to be necessary or expedient in consequence of or in connection with the provisions of section 1(1) of the Hong Kong Act 1985 for the purposes of the surrender of persons from a British overseas territory to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China and the treatment of persons surrendered to a British overseas territory from that Region. ”
A.K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council