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Civil Aviation Licensing Act 1960
Carriage by Air Act 1961
Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act 1962 Fugitive Offenders Act 1967
Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971
Hijacking Act 1971
Civil Aviation Act 1977
The bulk of the Orders in Council under this paragraph will be to amend or replace or to enable the Hong Kong legislature to replace United Kingdom statutes to the extent that they form part of the law of Hong Kong. The minority of other orders will generally be used remove references to Hong Kong which it will be inappropriate to
retain as part of the law of the UK when Hong Kong ceases to be a British dependent territory.
to
There are likely to be a very large number of such amendments during
the next 12 years. Even if as many as possible were to be grouped together in Orders in Council they would create a substantial amount of work for Parliament under positive resolution procedures.
The
resolution
Government is therefore convinced that negative procedures are the most suitable in the case of this paragraph.
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