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FROM:
CO Hum
Hong Kong Department
ΤΟ
Private Secretary
DATE:
14 April 1987
CC:
HONG KONG PUBLIC ORDER (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE
PS/Mr Renton
Mr McLaren
Mr Meyer, News Dept
PROBLEM
1.
Mr Norman Willis, the TUC General Secretary, has written to the
Secretary of State about the Public Order (Amendment) Ordinance.
How should the Secretary of State reply?
RECOMMENDATION
2.
I recommend that the Secretary of State reply on the lines of
the attached draft.
BACKGROUND
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3. The Secretary of State is aware of the background to the present
controversy over this Bill, which was summarised in Mr Layden's
submission of 17 March. He responded on the lines proposed in that
submission to representations by the Vice Chairman of Times Newspapers (on behalf of the Commonwealth Press Union) and the Hong
Kong Foreign Correspondents Club.
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