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Sir Lnson
TONG LONG
1.
DORMANT COMMISSION
Her Majesty The Queen has now approved the termination
of the Dormant Commission.
2. Sir Leslie Monson may now wish to write to Mr Nairne in
response to the request in paragraph 2 of the latter's letter
of 31 December. A draft is attached for this purpose.
3.
Thereafter we shall need to inform the Governor that the
Commission has been terminated and ask him to withdraw the
original from the Commander, British Forces, and return it to
us together with the copy in the Governor's own possession.
4. Legal Advisers have recommended that this would most
appropriately be done by formal despatch. A draft is attached
which embodies terms suggested by Legal Advisers.
Since this
matter has already been to Ministers and is now a formality
I suggest that the despatch can issue over the Secretary of
State's facsimile signature.
5. We have arranged with the Ministry of Defence to coordinate
with them on the timing of the issue of the despatch to ensure
that the Commander British Forces receives prior warning from
the Chief of the Defence Staff of the Governor's request for
the return of the Commission.
Mr Sommara.
I have with 1577 Naine as you proposed a relemm
Didn't Su M. Mack have 20, should güze hem when the
inite about this 2.0.
the draft dorp. for croue.
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Астрый
8 February 1972
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ammare.
AW Gaminara
Hong Kong Department
agree on all pts.
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