§ 67. Sir L. Plummerasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make reciprocal arrangements with the South African Union, arising from the Removal of Prisoners Ordinance (Northern Rhodesia), No. 54, 1953, enabling citizens of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland who are prisoners in South Africa to be transferred to prisons in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
§ Mr. HopkinsonI refer the hon. Member to the reply which my right hon. Friend gave to the hon. Member for Attercliffe (Mr. J. Hynd) on 30th June. The conclusion of any such arrangement, if it were considered desirable, would be a matter for the Federal Government.
§ 68. Sir L. Plummerasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make arrangements whereby citizens of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland upon whom sentences of imprisonment in lieu of the payment of fines are imposed in South Africa shall be given facilities for the payment of their fines, so that they shall not have to undergo imprisonment in South African prisons.
§ Mr. HopkinsonThe responsibility for safeguarding the interests of its inhabitants in this kind of matter in neighbouring Territories is one which now falls to the Federal Government.
§ Mr. J. Johnsonasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many persons convicted in a competent court in Northern Rhodesia, and by arrangement with the Union of South Africa sent to a South African prison, are still in such a prison; whether he will give particulars of such cases, including length of sentence, balance of sentence to be served, nationality and race; and what steps he is taking to arrange the return of these persons to a Northern Rhodesian prison.
§ Mr. LytteltonFour. 57W
(1) One European South African citizen sentenced to ten years imprisonment for manslaughter from 21st February, 1952: balance of sentence seven and a half years, subject to remission.(2) One British subject (of South African origin) born in Northern Rhodesia, aged 18, juvenile: sentenced for store breaking and theft to two years in juvenile reformatory from 25th April, 1953; balance of sentence nine months subject to remission.(3) One European South African citizen, aged 15: sentenced for conversion not amounting to theft to two years and nine months detention in juvenile reformatory from 20th November, 1953; balance of sentence two years subject to remission.(4) One European South African citizen, aged 17: sentenced for theft to three years in juvenile reformatory from 6th October, 1953; balance of sentence two years and two months subject to remission.The first person described will not return to Northern Rhodesia at the end of his sentence, since he has also been deported to South Africa under the Immigration Ordinance; the three other persons will be brought back to Northern Rhodesia at the end of their period of detention.