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10. Finally we might consider whether any special
conditions should attach to service under the Crown,
by which public servants should be made answerable
for their acts in all British territories.
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should meet together as soon as possible, /perhaps
with the help of someone from the Law Officers
Department, to examine these possibilities with any
others. In doing so it might be relevant to consider
the situation in the Channel Islands, where there is
in many ways a closer constitutional parallel with
the dependent territories than in /the independent
Commonwealth countries.
Ideally/1f an amending
Order in Council is to be laid before Parliament
this should be done before the/Frime Minister goes
to Hong Kong in January. There is therefore a need
for speed.
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