Article 2.
The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Paris, as soon as possible.
It shall come into force ten days after its publication in the manner prescribed by law in the respective countries, and shall have the same force and duration as the Treaty to which it relates.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention, and have affixed thereto their seals.
Done, in duplicate, at Paris, on the 17th October, 1908.
(L.S.) Fracis Bertie.
(L.S.)S. Pichon.
And whereas an Agreement was concluded on the 31st day of December, 1889, between the Government of Her late Britannic Majesty and the Government of the French Republic, acting in its own name and in that of the Government of His Highness the Bay of Tunis, for extending the provisions of the aforesaid Treaty of the 14th August, 1876, to Tunis, in the case of which Agreement the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, were applied by Order in Council of the 1st May, 1890 :
And whereas a further Agreement was concluded on the 29th July, 1909, between Our Government and the Government of the French Republic, acting in its own name and in that of the Government of His Highness the Bey of Tunis, which Agreement is in the terms following:—
The Government of His Britannic Majesty, on the one part,
And the Government of the French Republic, acting in its own name and in that of the Government of His Highness the Bay of Tunis,on the other part, Having regard to the Agreement of December 31st 1889, which extends the provisions of the Anglo-French Extradition Treaty of August 14th 1876 to Tunis, have agreed as follows:
The provisions of the Anglo-French Extradition Convention of October 17th, 1908, modifying Article 2 of the Anglo-French Extradition Convention of August 14th, 1876, shall apply to Tunis.
The present Agreement shall come into force at the same time as the aforesaid Convention of October 17th, 1908, and shall have the same duration.
In witness whereof, the undersigned, His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Francis Bertie, His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, and His Excellency M. Stephen Pichon, Senator, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the French Republic, have concluded the present Agreement, and have affixed thereto their seals.
Done in duplicate at Paris, on the 29th July, 1909.
(L.S.)Francis Bertie.
(L.S.)S. Pichon.
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to Him by the Extradition Acts, 1870-1906. doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the thirteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nine, the said Acts shall apply in the case of France under and in accordance with the said Treaty of the fourteenth August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, as supplemented by the Additional Conventions of the thirteenth February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and seventeenth October, one thousand nine hundred and eight; and in the case of Tunis under and in accordance with the said Agreements of the thirty-first December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and twenty-ninth July, one thousand nine hundred and nine:
Provided always that the operation of the said Acts shall be and remain suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as an Act of the Parliament of Canada, being Part I of chapter one hundred and fifty-five of "The Revised Statutes of Canada 1906," and entitled " An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals," shall continue in force there, and no longer.
