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 2126 EXTRADITION TREATY-GREAT BRITAIN. DECEMBER 22.1931. Requisitions. comes into effect the territory of the Dominion concerned or of Indla shall be deemed to be terrltory of His Britannic Majesty for the purposes of the present Treaty. The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal who has taken refuge in any of the above-mentioned Dominions or India, on behalf of which His Britannic Majesty has acceded, shall be made by the appropriate diplomatic or consular officer of the United States of America. na=TarmstroBot (talk) Either High Contracting Party may terminate this Treaty sepa- rately in respect of any of the above-mentioned Dominions or Jildia. Such termination shall be effected by a notice given in accordance with the provisions of Article 18. British mandl\tes. Fugitives in British territory. Any notice given under the first paragraph of this Article in respect of one of His Britannic Majesty's Dominions may include anI territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the Le~ue of Nations has been accepted by His Britannic Majesty, and which is being administered by the Government of the Dominion concerned; such territry shall, if so included, be deemed to be territory of His Britannic Majesty for the purposes of the present Treaty. Any notice given under the third paragraph of this Article shall be applicable to such mandated territory. ARTICLE 15. The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal whc has taken refUge in any territory of His Britannic Majesty other than Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man, or the Dominions or India mentioned in Article 14, shall be made to the Governor, or chief authority, of such territory by the appropriate consular officer of the United States of America. Such requisition shall be dealt with by the competent authorities of such territory: provided, nevertheless, that if an order for the committal of the :fugitive criminal to prison to await surrender shall he made, the said Governor or chief authority may. instead of issuing a warrant for the surrender of such f!lgitive, refer the matter to His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nofthern Ireland. ARTICLE 16. APPliC8bili~O des- This Treaty sha.ll apply in the same manner as if they were =::tes. Bri pro- Possessions of His Britannic Majesty to the following British Protectorates, that is to say, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Gam- bia Protectorate, Kellya Protectorate, Nigeria Protectorate, Northern Rhodesia, Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, Nyasaland, Sierra Leone Protectorate, Solomon Islands Protectorate, Somaliland Pro- tectorate, Swaziland, Uganda Protectorate and Zanzibar, and to the following territories in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Britannic Majesty, that is to say, Cameroons under British mandate, Togoland under British mandate, and the Tanganyika Territory. ARTICLE 17. toE::nTarmstroBot (talk)OvislOD8 If after the signature of the present Treaty it is considered or ry. advisable to extend its provisions to any British Protectorates other than those mentioned In the preceding Article or to any British- protected State, or to any. territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Britannic Majesty, other than those mandated territories mentioned in Articles 14 and 16, the stipulations of Articles 14 and 15 shall be deemed to