Registry
No. HKK 18/11
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
DRAFT
Letter
Type 1 +
To:-
From
J. W. Bourne, Esq.,
Telephone No. & Ext.
Lord Chancellor's Office, House of Lords,
S. W. 1.
Department
..In Confidence
Your Ref. 3632/314
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
Enclosures:
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have four commentary the problems which would anse of the new Kules
now
are made
and have
put them to the
Hong Kong Divorce Jurisdiction Rules.
Please refer to your letter to me of the 2nd
October and my interim reply of the 6th October.
2. May I deal first with the reasons why the Hong
Kong Government wish the new non-domiciled Rules to
be made now? They are stated in saving despatch
No. 209 of 9th February 1968 from the Governor to the
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, a copy of
which I enclose.
Paragraph 2 of the despatch deals with
the question of revoking the present Rules subject to
certain exceptions; and also with the addition of a
further Rule which was agreed by the Commonwealth Affairs
the a
Office and is subject of clause 13 of the draft Rules
read with section 10 of the Matrimonial Causes Ordinance
1967 of Hong Kong (cap. 179).
3.
Regarding the general points which you have raised
(apart from the actual draft), personally-am
grateful to you for doing so and I am advising our
Hong Kong Department to put them to the Hong Kong
authenties with Government authorities and to suggest to them that the Hong Kong Government
that
the suggestin then making should be delayed. enclose a copy
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despatch
i October
of the fovernor
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making of the Bles should be deferred pending con-
sideration by this Office and the Government of Hong Kong
of the problems referred to in those general points.
Reverting to