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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
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Hong Kong Dear.
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The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by
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La/Co* Mr. John Rankin (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs, if he will now recommend the Hong Kong Government to suspend for one year Regulation 31 of the Emergency (Principal) Regulations which gives them powers to detain persons for a period of one year without trial, without expressing any reason, and to continue this process at the end of the year.
20 January, 1969.
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No, Sir.
Mor Wilkain Whittock
Regulation 31 of the Emergency (Principal)
Regulations will be continued in operation only for so
long as is necessary.
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