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F Burrows Esq
Legal Adviser's Department Foreign & Commonwealth Office
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15 November 1984
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Dear Burrows
HONG KONG BILL
ERK OFFICER
REGISTRY
INDEX
PA
Action Taken
Here is a draft Bill in reply to the instructions sent with
Henry Darwin's letter to Engle of 13 November.
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Clause 1(1). The wording owes something to Article 1 of the
Treaty scheduled to the Anglo-Venezuelan Treaty (Island of Patos)
Act 1942 (c.17). See also the Anglo-Italian Treaty (East African
Territories) Act 1925 (c.9).
Clause 1(2). How do you "initial" something in Chinese characters?
Schedule, para.1. This cannot of course operate until the Joint
Liaison Group meets and that cannot be before the Joint Declaration
comes into operation.
Para.2. I have deliberately compressed this as much as possible in
order not to upset the balance of the Bill. But the powers it confers
are I think sufficient to cover all the matters you describe.
sumably you deliberately omit the part of the Memorandum which
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