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accepted for general service in the
Royal Navy is primarily a matter for
the Hong Kong Government. Their
Lordships concurred generally in
comments on certain parts of the
Schedule which were contained in the
enclosed letter from the Colonial Office,
but suggested that, if complete effect
were to be given to what appeared to
be the wishes of the Colonial
Government, further extensive amendments
would be necessary.
They accordingly
the necessary
transmitted an appendix of amendments
to the Naval Discipline Act, a copy of
which is enclosed.
further
3. Their Lordships expressed
the view that the references in the
Naval Discipline Act to sentences of
death, penal servitude and corporal
punishment may have caused the Hong Kong
Government to over-estimate the severity
of