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bill will need to cover until we complete negotiations at
the end of September.
Subject to your agreement, I
agreement, I assume that we could need to
prepare a paper for the Queen's Speeches and Future
Legislation Committee setting out the position, with a
view to giving instructions to Parliamentary Counsel
shortly after the initialling of the agreement in
September.
I should be grateful for your agreement that it would be
possible to include a Hong Kong Bill in the legislative
programme 1984/85, and to put it through all the
ne essary stages by the end of June 1985. I am writing
separately to the Leader of the House on this subject.
24 August 1984
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