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Most of the cases to gov. has in mão fall into this
category
I think.
Kunhilford
31/8
Though
it has not
So far, very much.
Kun Wolf
immigration legislation in the British Virgin Islands and would
be similar to the Bermuda legislation governing the deportation
of British subjects.
7. There should (on the United Kingdom analogy) also be a
provision that in cases which the Governor certified involved
security considerations and which in his view could not be the
subject of enquiry by an independent authority without the risk
of damage to the public interest, the need for such an enquiry
could be dispensed with.
8. The Governor has reported that the Bill has received both
favourable and unfavourable publicity locally but has not aroused
very great interest or substantial opposition. The nature of the
Bill is such that it is likely to attract Parliamentary interest in
this country; it has already been the subject of a Parliamentary
Question and of letters from two Members of Parliament. But
having regard to the terms of the United Kingdom Governments own
Immigration Bill, shortly to be enacted, and to the special
circumstances obtaining in Hong Kong, it is considered that
subject to the modifications suggested above there is
justification for the measures proposed in the Hong Kong Bill and
it is recommended that the Governor should be authorised in terms
of the attached draft telegram to proceed with its enactment.
9.
Legal Advisers, Migration and Visa Department and West
Indian Department agree with those terms of this submission which
concern them.
27 August 1971
Manu
E O Laird
Hong Kong Department
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