CONFIDENTIAL

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To

me with

papers referenced

Aes 8/10

Flas

Hong Kong Department

Fugitive Offenders Act 1968

The Secretary of State has seen Mr. Guest's minute of B3 October about Mr. Royle's decision that we should drop the

idea of a change in the Fugitive Offenders Act. The Secretary of State has minuted:-

"This creates difficulty in Hong Kong, but it is I feel right.

Was I not told however that there was

in any event a general case for amending the Act?"

REOVID IN REGISTRY No.31

8 OCT 1973

Copied to:

PS/Mr. Royle Mr. Wilford Mr. Youde Legal Advisers

Plotratta

(P.H. Grattan)

4 October, 1973

CONFIDENTIAL

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