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52928/20/49
OUTWARD TELEGRAM
FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.
Cypher (0,T,P.)
TO SINGAPORE (31r F. Gimson)
Sent 29th April, 1949
11.00 hrs.
(211
No. 399 Secret
Addressed to Governor Singapore Repeated
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Commissioner General South East Asia
No. 228 (Governor Singapore please
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High Commissioner Federation of Malaya
No. 479
Governor Hong Kong Ho, 419
lly preceding telegram,
Following from Paskin. Begine.
Following are comments of Legal Adviser on
Singapore Societies Ordinance. Begins,
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Reluctant au one is to put any hladrance in the way of the locsi goveruinensa ia any measures which they think neceusary for the restoration or preservesion of order obliged to call attention to certain legal obetacles to the polley proposed,
I feel steps should be taken to amend the law forthwith, in order
My object in doing eo za to suggest that that the Governments may avoid legal difficulties when their plan is put into operation..
the High
In the Federation, as an interim vesgues, Commissioner propose a to' deolare certain political associationg "unlawful societies" under Bestion 3 of Ordinance No. 11 of 1947.
I see no difficulty here.
Re proposes in due course,
an Ordivance on the lines of chapter 217 of the Straits
however, to subetitpre Settlements Lawe, and the Governor of Gingapoes will act under that law as it steTAB. legislate on the same lines.
Further, Hong Kong also wish to atraits Settlements lay about which I feel doubtful.
It is the procedure under the
If societies are registered, or exempted from registration by the Registrer woder acction 4(1), they can be declared unlawful by order under section 17; that shoulă suffice. One point which might with advantage bc looked into, is whether there should be express provision for cencellation of registration when such an order is my de
little practical importance.
though this may be
The
re serious difficultica relate to those
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