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Governor's proposals, has been approved
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the
Secretary of State and agreed with Hong Kong
and agreed
3. If the Governor notifies us that he intends
to take a decision to let the law take its course
in a specific case, the Secretary of State will
need to decide whether
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(a)
to support the Governor;
(b)
change the law;
(c) consult with his Ministerial
colleagues, either without a
recommendation, or recommending
that the law be changed.
If Ministers decide that the law must be changed,
we should inform the Governor within five weeks
of receiving his preliminary conclusions (or
four weeks if we go back to him with further
comments), so that Executive Council can be
informed before an Order is presented to the Privy
Council. The Executive Council would then have
three weeks for consideration.
This makes the
time-table eight weeks in all. An Order in
Council would then be made (the legal aspects of
a draft Order having been cleared in advance with
Hong Kong). If the Executive Council decision is
known before the end of their three-week period,
we would in normal circumstances be able to make
the Order+in+Council within the overall eight-
week period or very shortly thereafter.
delay of more than a week or two is expected we
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