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HONG KONG IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE 1971
1. On 3 August Mr Ben Ford MP wrote to Mr Royle
asking if he could be provided with a copy of the Hong ovided
Kong Immigration Bill which had been introduced into
the Legislative Council in July, together with an
explanation of the new measure.
2. Mr Godber replied to Mr Ford on 9 August saying
that a copy of the legislation would be sent to
Mr Ford as soon as possible after it had been
enacted, together with an explanatory memorandum.
3. The Bill was enacted by the Hong Kong
Legislative Council on 13 October and we have received
advanee copies of the resulting Immigration
Ordinance.
We are therefore now in a position to
send a copy to Mr Ford.
4. I attach a draft letter for the purpose.
The
draft follows the lines of a letter sent by Mr Royle
to Mr Blaker on 30 September in response to a similar
enquiry. At that time the Bill had not been enacted
and Mr Royle sent Mr Blaker a copy of the Acting
Attorney General Hong Kong's, explanatory memorandum
on the Bill. However, the Bill was amended in
several respects in the course of its passage through
the legislature and the explanatory memorandum is now
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