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HKK 6/548/6 DRAFT Saving Despatch
Type 1 +
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted. Unclassified.
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Copy to Dr. Sellers,
Have Yong God Office.
To:-
Sir David Clive
Crosbie Trench, KONG,
-HO.
Governor, and Commander
HONG KONG.
No673
in Chief,
From
H.H. Stewart
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
I am sending you copies of the Customs (Import Deposits) Bill which was given its first
reading in the House and ordered to be printed
on 26 November: it was published yesterday.
Section I of the Act will have effect as from
27 November and the Bill is being debated today,
28 November.
2. For self evident reasons the Import
Deposit scheme which, as you are aware, was
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announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
in the course of his statement about the inter-
national monetary situation on the 22 November,
immediately after his return from the meeting
at Bonn, had to be introduced without delay.
The measures were therefore brought into as
near immediate effect as possible by a Ways
and Means Resolution on 25 November; а сору
of the relevant Order Paper is enclosed.
Resolution provided the necessary authority
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to collect import deposits as from 27 November.
3.
There is room for misunderstanding in the
JANI MANAT fact that it has been necessary for technical
reasons, arising from the wording of the
Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1968, to
refer to these deposits as "Duties of Customs"
which of course they are not. This was
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alluded to in paragraph 2 of Immediate Telegram
to Algiers No. 403, which you have seen.
In the same.
telegram we referred to the likelihood
/that we should