Repatriation, therefore, was not the same as extradition.
The concept cannot be expressed with semantic accuracy by word pairs like 'expel-expulsion', 'exile-exile' or 'extradite-extradition'.
With some ingenuity then, deportation might achieve almost all that extradition could promise.
This was the issue of extradition.
Should they do so, there was no need to engage in the complicated and difficult process of extradition; rather the government could resort to the home secretary's powers of deportation.
Therefore, at that time those who drafted the extradition legislation were not thinking of what would happen if a crime were committed in an aircraft.
There have been no extradition cases from either country since 1923.
Therefore, it is a good arrangement that applies in most cases where extradition is needed for criminals who escape from one jurisdiction to another.
