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includes stop-over traffic. In the current context, however, the conclusion might well be drawn that while stop-over traffic was restricted on the UK Routes, such was not the case on the Hong Kong Routes. For the avoidance of doubt, therefore, this restriction has also been stated expressly in Note 3 to Route II in each section;
(b)
the existing ASA Route Schedule contains references to "territory" in Note 2 to each section. Although we would interpret this to mean metropolitan UK (i.e. as excluding the dependent territories), Hong Kong is nevertheless point in the territory of the United Kingdom by virtue of
Article 1(h), so, to avoid any confusion on this score
2.
between Routes I and II, the words "the territory of" have been removed from each Note
The new wording
wording is, incidentally, also consistent with references to "points in the United Kingdom" and "points in the Republic of South Africa" in Note 3 to both sections and in the Routes themselves.
5. I am copying this to Frances Blaber (IAla), who will be taking over responsibility for Hong Kong issues from me on 1 March, to David Priestley (IAlb), to Katie Wain (AMD) and to Thomas Yiu in Hong Kong.
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