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HONG KONG TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
16 JAN 1969
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Telno BIS 1
UNCLASSIFIED
15 January, 1969
An order
Three emergency regulations will be discontinued. will [?grp undec] gazetted Friday discontinuing numbers twenty-seven, forty-one and one hundred twenty-nine of Emergency (Principal) Regulations.
Emergency Regulation twenty-seven deals with the dissemination of false reports; Emergency Regulation forty-one with power to search for and seize weapons without warrant and Emergency Regulation one hundred
twenty-nine provides for offence of sabotage.
Effect of discontinuing regulations is that they cannot be used without new decision by Governor in Council.
In meantime they will be retained in law in case they should be needed.
Decision follows latest review of emergency legislation.
In answer questions we said "Government not (repeat not) taken any decision incorporate Regulation thirty-one or any similar. provision in permanent law", Ends, Informs.
Sir D. Trench
DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION
Information Policy Dept
News Dept
Information Administration Dept
Information Research Dept
Hong Kong Dept
Far Eastern Dept
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