CONFIDENTIAL
DSR 11C
The Bill should therefore contain enabling provisions,
so that one or more Orders in Council can be made,
subject only to annulment procedures in Parliament.
A precedent for such a procedure is to be found in
Section 4 of the Cyprus Act 1960. The object of such orders
would be to create, consistently with the United Kingdom
Memorandum, the new status referred to in that Memorandum,
and to define and regulate the means by which it is to be
acquired.
[ bould Mr. Houve please assist? ]
[Any instructions to deal with persons who are not
BDTC's and who would, if provision were not made for them,
be left stateless after 1997 should be inserted here].
Modification of Laws
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When a dependent territory becomes independent it is
customary for the Independence Bill to provide for the
continuation, as the law of the newly independent state, of
all UK laws which previously applied in the colony:
see e.g. Section 3 of the Belize Act 1981. In the same
Act Schedule 1 enabled the legislature of the independent
Belize to repeal or amend those laws, free from the
restraints of the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, and
to legislate with extra-territorial effect. Schedule 2
made consequential amendments not affecting the law of
Belize, to various UK statutes.
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These matters will need to be dealt with in different ways
The Hong Kong Bill will need to deal with such matters. the case of Hong Kong.
but in a difforént way, Under the terms of Annex I(II)
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