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essential action had to be taken before 24 September,
now.
that could be pursued here. We should ask Hong Kong
to look at the Declaration in the light of the latter
point.
6. Sir M MacLehose asked whether the Declaration
had to be accepted or rejected as a whole. Mr Holland
was not intended to lateral
be a formal agreeme
said that was not the ease it came into force
automatically provided its terms were maintained.t
This mainly concerned MSP. He personally thought the
recipients would find it an attractive offer.
Sir M MacLehose said he would send a telegram to Hong
Kong asking for their reactions to the Declaration.
MR GODBER AND THE BLAIR-KERR REPORT
7.
The meeting was joined by Mr Rushford and
Mr Wright.
Mr Royle said we had been having a look at the
possibility of amending the Fugitive Offenders Act.
Contained
because
Thes
But we had
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
* worked as a double criminality provision, which had
been put in in 1967 to take eccount of the position of
had the power to make their own laws independent Commonwealth countries. We could alter it which might be quite different from ours.
This need not basically apply to because Hong Kong was a Crown Colony.
the Dependent Territories where we had some control over the legislation, and we could change the relevant provision by Oder in Courical. One probles was, however, that the the Protection
agreed to the Frevention of Bribery Ordinance
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the advice of the Law Offieersten
that pe
would have"
einst
understanding
defend It în Parliament
It would only be possible to get a
personally would be willing to chang. charge in the fugitive Offenders Act through with de support or
the Act if the Opposition agreed. He would therefore the Onposition. He intadded to
talk to the Attorney General and the Whips, and then
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the Opposition, He was advised that to amend the Act was amended it could be made to apply to D. Godber without could make it possible to send Mr Godber back even the amendment being retrospective in Sam. This was important
without making the amendment retrospective.
/Sir M MacLehose
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sectón
of
of Bribery Ordinance under which 17. Godber
was charged in Mos Kong, was it's eff
oper to coticism. The Law Officers had advised against it and he had had to undertake to defend it in Partanent 'it