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FT SAVINGRAM TO GOVERTOR, HONG KONG
FOR FOREIGN OFFICE CONCURRENCE
No.!..
My telegram No.850.
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C. 3. REGY.
1 JAN 1947
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Sent 1500XES. 1.1.47.
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1. 4.It now appears from Shanghai telegram No.706 dated
20th November, addressed to Foreign Office and repeated to
you as savingram, that U.N.R.R.A. is not asking for
privileges for personnel but for those privileges and
immunities which are recommended for the Administration as
a body, by U.N.R.R.A. Resolutions 32, 34 and 36 (published
as Miscellaneous No.6 (1943): Cmd 6497). These and some
of the privileges for personnel referred to in those
resolutions were conferred by H.M.G. Order-in-Council Statutory Rules and Orders 1945
(Statu
by
No.79) of 1945 copy of this and of the Diplomatic
Privileges (Extension) Act, 1944 under which the Order X WAS MADE IS being forwarded o you by was made are attained for ease of reference)?
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Understand that a representative of U.N.R.R.A. has
discussed question with Todd, and requested that question
be re-opened.
Foreign Office have now approached me again on the 3 subject. While Resolutions, 32, 34 and 36 are not legally
member governinent's
bindings, Courrice in which U,N.R.R.A. is operating are
&
under some moral obligation to give effect to them,
I shall be glad therefore if you will consider the
introduction of legislation in Hong Kong providing for the
grant to U.N.R.R.A. as an organisation of the immunities
and privileges set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to the
Diplomatic Privileges (Extension) Act 1944.
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The Order in Council goes further and grants
certain immunities to the U.N.R.R.A. personnel in this
country. You will no doubt consider whether these
privileges and immunities should be included in the
Hong Kong legislation, although they have not, in this
case, been requested.
f action fee.
SECER.