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Registry No. CR 4/2/44
DEPARTMENT
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reach addresscc(s)
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
PRIORITY MARKINGS
(Date)
Despatched
Top Secret Secret
Confidential
Restricted Unclassified
Emergency
Immediate
Priority Routine
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Security classification
CONFIDENTIAL
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Your Saving Despatch No. 211 of 10 February
COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION
Delay in replying to your Saving despatch
is regretted. The Legal Adviser concerned found
the problem to be one of great complexity.
2.
After consultation with the Board of
Trade Legal Adviser he has given us the following
opinion:
(1) The papers sent with your despatch,
he says, show that the effect upon
the operations of Rediffusica
(Hong Kong) Ltd. was considered by
the Hong Kong Executive Council but
do not make it clear what is their
Ele actr
reason for wishing to deprive the
Company of its right. He suggests
that we should ask for clarification
of this.
(ii) The omission of Section 40(3) of the
1956 Act, coupled with the provision
of Section 4(2) of the draft
world an
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