HKK 040/53
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
23 OCT 1984
DESK OFFICER
SECRET
INDEX
Sir P Cradock
Private Secretary
REGISTRY
PA
Action Taken
FROM:
CO HUM, HKD
HONG KONG: LEGISLATION
PROBLEM
DATE: 23 October 1984
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cc: PS/Mr Luce
PS/PUS
Sir J Freeland
Mr Bickford, Legal Advisers Parliamentary Unit
1. What are the next steps to be taken in the preparation of the Hong Kong Bill?
RECOMMENDATION
2. I recommend that Hong Kong be consulted in the terms of the attached draft telegram. Legal Advisers concur.
BACKGROUND AND ARGUMENT
A
B
3. On 8 October the Secretary of State minuted the Lord President
of the Council to set out his thinking on the main aspects of
Hong Kong legislation. Replies have now been received from the Lord President (who also wrote on behalf of the Lord Privy Seal), the
C, D Home Secretary and the Attorney General. Only two points raised in
the Secretary of State's minute gave rise to comment:
(i)
Provision for the termination of sovereignty.
The Lord President of the Council and the Attorney
General both concurred with the Secretary of
State's preference for making the termination of sovereignty by means of a clause in the Hong Kong
Bill rather than by means of an enabling clause giving power to make a subsequent Order in Council.
SECRET
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