Mr Stone HKD
Rt&prs
REA
HKA 373/1
27 APR 1992
FA
FROM:
Miss S Brooks
Legal Counsellor
DATE:
24 April 1992
JUDICIAL OFFICERS (SECURITY OF TENURE) BILL: REQUEST FOR AMENDMENTS TO THE LETTERS PATENT
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1. In Mrs Ip's letter to Mr Ricketts of 14 April, paragraph 10, Mrs Ip proposes an addition to Article XVI of the Letters Patent. I have no objection to the proposed addition. However, given that there is at present no paragraph (1) in Article XVI, it will be necessary to revoke the existing Article XVI and replace it with the same wording as in the existing paragraph but prefaced by (1)'. The alternative is simply to delete the reference to '(2) from the proposed amendment; in other words the proposed amendment would form part of the existing Article XVI without being placed in a separate paragraph. Please ask Mrs Ip which the Hong Kong Government would prefer.
2.
The proposed amendment to the Colonial Regulations, Part I, Appendix 2, Regulation 54(6) seems acceptable. I have no objection to the repeal by the Governor of the Disciplinary Proceedings (Colonial Regulations) Regulations, Regulation 3.
3.
I am content for the Bill to go forward. I notice that the Bill provides that the Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette (see Clause 1 (II)). This should enable the commencement of the legislation in Hong Kong to be synchronised with the coming into operation of the amendments to the Letters Patent and Colonial Regulations.
4. I will put in train the amendment to the Letters Patent when we have a reply from Hong Kong on the matter raised in my paragraph 1 above.
AEJ ALY
S Brooks
Shelagh Brooks,
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