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MR. STEPHEN
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
We discussed this matter in Gen 103 on 13 October, and the
conclusions we reached are correctly stated in the minute
circulated by the Cabinet Office.
The full proposal which I made if there is not for the present
to be legislation is not, however, apparent from the minute of
the discussion about the abrogation of the Creech-Jones doctrine.
The minute correctly records David Owen's proposal "that
cases where a Governor did not exercise the Prerogative should
be referred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary for him to
whether to advise the Queen to exercise the
consider
prerogative" (my emphasis).
It is also recorded that this would
be announced by Parliamentary statement.
My objection to that proposal was that it would necessarily
expose differences of view in particular cases between the
Governor and the Foreign Secretary. My proposal was intended
to avoid that difficulty.
I suggested, as did David, the
abrogation of the Creech-Jones doctrine, but my proposal was the total withdrawal of the Governor's delegated powers, and a
Parliamentary statement that the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary
would in each case consider, in the light of all the circumstances,