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HKK 01/18
RECEIVE
21 NC 1986
Private Secretary
CONFIDENTIAL
dile
67
FROM: C O HUM, HKD
RY
DATE: 29 September 1986
cc PS/Mr Renton
Dr Wilson
Mr Fifoot, Deputy Legal
Adviser
HONG KONG: NEW FORM OF GOVERNMENT LEASE
Problem
1.
To issue an instruction to permit land to be granted in the name of the Government of Hong Kong, consequent upon the amendment recently made to the Letters Patent providing
that
in the land grants should no longer be made
The Queen.
name
of
Recommendation
2.
I
recommend that pursuant to Article XIII(4) of the Letters patent the Secretary of State issue an instruction
to the
attached
Governor
of
draft.
of lines the
the along Hong Kong This instruction would not be for
publication but could be produced
could be produced in legal proceedings if anyone challenged the new form. Legal Advisers concur.
Background
A
3.
An amendment
the Letters patent was
made in July
1986 which had the effect of removing the requirement that
in land
the name of the grants of
in Hong Kong be made Crown. This amendment was a consequence of the agreement
reached in
Sino-British the
Land
CONFIDENTIAL
Commission
to
remove