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see that this actually does any harm. This is because we believe

that anyone concerned with a particular case will see that the

rules of the relevant legislation have to be applied and will'

look at those rules so as to discover the substantive provision.

There will be no need for anyone to consider the machinery that

has brought that substantive provision about. If you accept our

present amendments, there will be a difference in approach with

regard to clause 18 as compared with the approach with regard to

the colonies and to international conventions. But it seems to

us that this can be justified because the cases are actually

It would clearly be wrong, we think, if the first of

your new clauses continued to refer in subsection (2), as it has

hitherto referred, to clause 2. It would be wrong also for the

amendments of the enactments about international conventions to

refer to clause 2. This is because each of them has its own

independent power to make an Order in Council.

different.

Yours

sirourly

J

J D M RENNIE

Juma Runne

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