CONFIDENTIAL
FROM: P F Ricketts
Hong Kong Department
DATE:
July 1993
cc: Miss Brooks, Legal
Counsellor
Mr Hum
PS/Mr Goodlad
Private Secretary
HONG KONG:
JUDICIAL OFFICERS (TENURE OF OFFICE) BILL:
AMENDMENT TO THE COLONIAL REGULATIONS
Problem
An amendment to the Colonial Regulations is required to take account of Hong Kong's Judicial Officers (Tenure of
Office) Bill.
1.
Recommendation
2.
(i)
I recommend that the Secretary of State should:
approve an amendment to Regulation 54 (6) and a
consequential amendment to Regulation 65 of Appendix II to Part 1 of the Colonial Regulations which applies only to public officers in Hong Kong.
(ii) agree that the Governor may repeal Regulation 3 of the
Disciplinary Procedures (Colonial Regulations)
Regulations (DP (CR) R).
A departmental Legal Adviser and the Hong Kong Government are
content.
Background
3.
At present magistrates and other judicial officers in Hong
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