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
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necessary in Hong Kong, there are more than
misuse of such adequate safeguards against the use of emergency howers
legislation as an instrument of oppression.
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