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HONG KONG:
A. R. RUSHFORD
NEW TERRITORIES
(20A YDIA
The Attorney-General has considered your letters of 26 June 130)-and 2 July, and the Draft Order in Council and other documents
with which he has been provided.
He sees no objection in principle to provision on the lines of clause 2 of the Draft Order.
He notes that the intended purpose of clause 3 is to make provision for the administration of the New Territories not only during the
period of the 1898 Convention but also after July 1 1997. This clause would in his opinion have no legal consequences in municipal law until 1 July 1997 since the 1898 Order already makes identical provision for that period; whether it would have any effect thereafter is at the present time wholly uncertain.
In any public explanation of clause 3 it would not be possible to deny that the extent of Her Majesty's powers to provide for the
administration of the New Territories would remain the same after
the new Order in Council as they were before it was made;
in so far as clause 3 purported to make provision having effect
and that,
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