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Colonial Divorce Jurisdiction Acts 1926 and 1940 and the
Whaling Industry (Regulation) Act 1936. There are many
more, all of which need to be studied carefully to see how
they should be amended.
There will be a very large number of such amendments during
the next 12 years. Even if
if as many as possible
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 Government is therefore
the most
convinced that negative resolution procedures are
suitable in the case of this paragraph. If your Lordships.
wish to debate Orders under such procedures it is possible
to do so.
I hope the Committee will accept this paragraph as
drafted.
[IF IT IS SUGGESTED THAT WE
SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED THE
NECESSARY CHANGES IN THE SCHEDULE TO THE BILL]
This was not possible for very practical reasons. In many
cases the need for
clear in the course
legislative amendments will only become
of the next twelve years as we seek to institutions increasingly
make Hong Kong's law and
ti me
self-sufficient.
In the
ratification date it would not
available before the
have been practicable to
survey the entire corpus of UK legislation as it affects Hong Kong and to list the changes necessary. The list will
be long.
Many of the changes will be technical, but since
Orders made under this section will be subject to
negative
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