ATD
DEPARTMENT OF TRADE
OVERSEAS TRADE DIVISION 2/1b
please eke Sis 1719.
Room 576, 1 Victoria Street London
Telex 8811074/5
Telegrams Advantage
Telephone Direct Line
Switchboard
Answer Back DTHQ G
London SW1
01-215 5629
01-215 7877
SW1H OET IKG
121/
S J Bridges Esq
Hong Kong & General Dept
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
London SW1
Your reference
Our reference
OT 576
Date
15 September 1982
Dear the bridges.
PROTECTION OF TRADING INTERESTS ACT 1980
@
-(10)
SEE (14)
I refer to your letters of 16 July and 19 July concerning the extension of the above Act to Hong Kong and Gibraltar respectively.
I copied the correspondence about extension of the Act to Hong Kong to our Solicitors for their comments on the points raised by the Hong Kong Government about the Order in Council extending the 1964 Act to Hong Kong. Our Solicitors have now obtained copies of the correspondence between the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel and the FCO Solicitors discussing this point, and are now satisfied that the 1964 Act, as extended to Hong Kong by Order in Council, remains in force there until an Order in Council is made under Section 8(8) of the 1980 Act extending that Act, and hence the repeal of the 1964 Act to Hong Kong.
Our Solicitors are content with the proposal concerning the extension of the Protection of Trading Interests Act to Gibraltar.
Yours sincerely Cilliankfuller.
Mrs G R Fuller
M54
(11)