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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