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380
DRAFT SAVING DESPATCH
To:-
The tobing Governor HONG KONG
In Confidence
Type 1 +
From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
on pecorious
Volume
Net.
HONG KONG IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE 1971
1. I enclose a copy of a letter dated 10 July 1971
addressed to the Secretary of State by Mr R D Peachey
May Road,
of Hong Kong.
2.
Since Mr Peachey has had to wait a considerable
the time for reply to his letter, it is consider
a
that a reply in some detail should now be
propp
Provided,
objection
it
should be
therefore, that you see no prediated if a reply may be
(You would have
ifa
m
sent to him, on the Secretary of State's behalf, along
the following lines:
(a)
the
It is regretted that reply to Mr Peachey
has been delayed, but the final form of the
legislation to which he refers in his letter was
not determined until shortly before its enactment
in October.
(b)})}
The Ordinance as enacted does not impose any
additional restrictions on the freedom of entry
into Hong Kong of citizens of the United Kingdom
and Colonies. In 1969 the Hong Kong Government
enacted legislation which extended to Commonwealth
citizens the controls which it operated, through
a system of visas and re-entry permits, over the
entry of aliens into the Colony. The circumstances
/in
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