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Ms Barrett
AUG 1993
Legal Advisers
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HONG KONG: LOCALISATION OF LAWS: CARRIAGE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL
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1. I attach Hong Kong telno 969 and Hong Kong's consultation paper on the above subject. I would be grateful for any
comments you may have, particularly on para 4 of the
telegram, by 30 June if possible.
1.
Janther Morhall
J N Marshall
Hong Kong Department
WH305 270-3287
17 June 1993
Mr Marshall, HleD I am sorry that pressure of the
Sany
resulted in such a
f
Ather more
urgent
work haus
anthost of your suggested deadline
2. I can see hindable to HK, including the 1983 and 1986 Orders,
H& wish to localise the full range of cument
CODE 18-77
legislation
which
apparently
do not
implement the Pais Convention or Protocol at all, I abo to make this clear tympathise with their
"
preference not to make this clear to the Chinese, in ader to avoid Complicating the negotiation, Para 5 of the paper refers to those
hio Ordets as ☺ Two futher Order-in-Council were
that the fact that do not state that the purpose of the Orders was to implement the Convention or Protocol, the Chinese
". I
Subsequally made.....
they
could infer that
Pais
Suppose
hard some
other
that they Chinese, amming they work thinont,
ssuming
it as
a
assu
from
propose.
The
might regard
sleight of hand, but I do not see