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H.K.
Hong Kong (Detainees)
Mr. Abse asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the Committee of Review estab- lished under the Hong Kong Emergency Regulations is an exclusively administra- tive and advisory body without any judicial functions; and what procedures for appeal were and are open to the 54 Chinese detained without trial.
Mr. Whitlock: The Committee of Re- view is a statutory advisory body, without any judicial functions, to which a de- tained person may lodge objections against his detention. The right to lodge. such objections is notified to each de- tained person when the detention order is delivered to him or as soon as prac- ticable thereafter. Such objections may be lodged immediately after the making of a detention order and thereafter at intervals of not less than two months.
DATE 17. Dec 1968. co 352- VOL. 7757.
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