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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
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Noon on Thune 19/12
Mr. Stan Newens (Epping): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what are the terms of Regulation 31 of the Hong Kong Emergency (Principal) Regulations which permit the detention of any person for periods of up to one year without trial.
20th December, 1968
D. Lillian Lomislook.
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RAFT AFFIX
The following is the text of Regulation 31 of the Hong Kong Emergency (Principal) Regulations:
31. (1) The Colonial Secretary may by order under his hand direct that any person named in such order shall be detained for any period not exceeding one year in such place of detention as may be specified by the Colonial Secretary in the
order.
(2) For the purpose of this regulation there shall be one or more Committees of Review. The Chairman and members of any
such Committee shall be appointed by the Governor. The Chairman and one other member of the Committee shall constitute
a quorum.
(3) The functions of any such Committee shall be to consider, and make recommendations to the Colonial Secretary with respect to any objections against any order made under paragraph (1) which are duly made to the Committee by the person
to whom the order relates.
(4) The Governor may make rules as to the manner in which objections against such an order as aforesaid may be made to such a Committee of Review, and such rules shall contain provisions for enabling any person in respect of whom an order is made under this regulation to make objections against the order either in person or with the leave of such Committee of Review by counsel, solicitor or agent; and every such person shall be informed of his right to make objections under this
regulation.
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