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24 MAY 89 23:50 FROM COI TECH RADIO
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TRANSCRIPT K SELECT COMMITTER ON HONG KONG 24 MAY 1989
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WR RENTON (CONT):
But when you said it would have serious implications
in fact in legal terms that is not true because the
does lie with the Home Secretary.
MR PETER TEMPLE-MORRIS:
may.
There are two more that I will put straight if I
Another aspect of this which we would welcome your
comment on, it is another aspect, it emerges from
paragraph 24 of your earlier Memorandum to us and you say
there, and I quote: "that the Government thought it right
that Section 4.5 should indicate that Crown Service in the
Dependencies could in some circumstances be recognised as
benefitting the UK itself".
That is a very proper statement and the question
really is that surely the work of the Hong Kong Civil
Service in implementing the Joint Declaration of the
British Government and the People's Republic of China is a
perfect example of such services, quite apart from
anything else they have done, past, present and future.
IR RENTON :
I fully take your point but I think that you have to
go on to the final sentence, or the next sentence in that
paragraph of ours: "The Government thought it right that
Section 4.5 should indicate that Crown Services in the