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3.
If you doubt whether
your powers under the Emergency
Regulations are sufficient, you
may wish to consider the
advisability of passing an
Ordinance providing for British
control in the case of all future
public utility undertakings. It
x (Surely this is an
unsafe figure to suggest in H.K. ?)
"This note refers to a figure 4/56 in the original drafte
might be stipulated, for example,
that the majority of the
Directors, or of the partners,
must be British subjects, and
that the principal officers and
some fixed percentage of the
employees, must also be British
subjects. For the purpose of
such legislation, public utility
undertakings would be defined, by
enumeration, with power to add to
the classes of undertakings so
enumerated, by notice in the
Gazette.
4.