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as soon as the security situation in the Colony permits, But so long as it remains necessary, in the public interest, for them to remain in detention, it will be necessary for the relevant emergency legislation to continue in force. I fully realise that detention without trial is a departure from the normal processes of British justice, but the fact is that emergency legislation must often provide, in a situation affecting the security of the State, additional powers for the executive and a derogation from the normal procedures of the rule of law. I am entirely satisfied that, to the extent that this has been necessary in Hong Kong, there are more than adequate safeguards against the misuse of such powers.
(SHEPHERD)