EXTRADITION LAW
Discretion Sought (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Aug. 24. An updating of extradition law applying between New Zealand and foreign, but not Commonwealth, nations proposes that future extradition treaties preserve discretion for the Dominion to refuse to surrender a New Zealand citizen. “Many but not all of the existing treaties already have a provision of this sort,” the Minister of Justice (Mr Hanan) told Parliament when introducing the Extradition Bill today. “We are now saying that it must appear in any treaty we conclude. No doubt such a discretion would seldom be exercised. “But it is a residual safeguard for our own people, if, for example, a country with which we have a treaty should become a dictatorship.” The bill would, from January 1, replace British legislation reaching back to 1870 which has so far applied in New Zealand.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30839, 26 August 1965, Page 7
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140EXTRADITION LAW Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30839, 26 August 1965, Page 7
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