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very happy. We cannot really take this matter any further.

your people, who have to administer the system,

work as they desire, we are content.

If

think it will

We have made the correction on which you comment in paragraph 4

of your letter.

We

came

conclusion that you would have

would have to have

a new

It needs to

in be

terms

to the

clause to deal with paragraph 5.

appropriate for colonies, which as we see it, means departing

quite a way from Clause 11.

We are not at this stage replying to your paragraphs 6 and 7.

I now move to fresh matters.

If

on

the

one

of Acts

at different times, combines pieces of work done one

sometimes notices discrepancies. We think we have detected one

In the present occasion.

various amendments of

concerned with international conventions we referred to clauses

12 to 17 as being relevant: see, for example, the proposed

section 3A (2) (c) for the Internationally Protected Persons Act

1978. But when dealing with the colonies we had referred to

clauses 12 to 18. It seems to us that we got this right for the

colonies, but not for the conventions. In other words we do

need to deal with

conventions.

repatriation cases in relation to the

We have made the necessary corrections.

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