HKK 040/53
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F Burrows, Legal Counsellor
14 November 1984
1 5 NOV 1984
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APS (Mr Ricketts) PS/Mr Luce
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Mr Galsworthy, HKD
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Sir P Cradock
Mr Darwin
Dr Wilson
HONG KONG BILL:
INSTRUCTIONS TO PARLIAMENTARY COUNSEL
97
1. Paragraph 2 of Mr Ricketts' minute of 13 November asks whether the proposal that the enabling clause on the modifica- tion of statutes should make the Orders in Council subject only to annulment procedures is the usual course in such cases.
2.
Our plan for Hong Kong is of course unique, and it is not easy to find even a close analogy. The best precedent
I can find is Section 3 of the Cyprus Act 1960. That section, read with the schedule to which it refers, followed the usual pattern of independence Acts by itself making a number of modifications to statutes. However, Section 3(3) enabled further modifications to be made by Order in Council, and Section 3 (5) made such orders subject to annulment procedures.
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F Burrows
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