Fugitive Offenders Act 1967
Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971
Hijacking Act 1971
Civil Aviation Act 1977
DSR 11C
There may well be a very large number of such amendments
during the next 12 years and they would create a
substantial amount of work for Parliament under positive
resolution procedures. The Government is therefore
convinced that negative resolution procedures are the
most suitable.
I think that there may be a misconception in your remarks
We do not in general
in the House on 21 January.
envisage that Orders would be made at Westminster to
establish systems in Hong Kong: this would be
self-defeating, since Hong Kong laws must be able to
stand independent from UK statute law by 1997.
Legislation of this kind will have to be introduced in
Hong Kong, not Westminster, and the object of this
section of the Schedule is to enable us to make Orders
giving them the necessary power.