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think I is
un
I have not thought necessary to worry
you with our earlier correspondence with the
if I explain the following pouils: Ministry of War Transport, but with reference to
para. 5 of Jackson's letter of the 11th march, 1
might add that he pointed out that the definition
of "enactment" in para. 1(2) of the draft Order
included a provision contained in an Order of His
Majesty in Council only so far as such provision was
not made by virtue of an Act of Parliament, and expressed
Whether
le,
some doubt that while, it was clear that the intention of
the definition as a whole was designed to include the
Hong Kong Defence Regulations/under which a Considerable
number of Hong Kong registered ships in the service of
the Ministry had been requisitioned, the wording used
would in fact achieve the desired result on the grounds
that the Regulations, while admittedly deriving their
immediate validity from the Emergency Powers (Colonial
Defence) Order in Council, 1939, might be not
provisions made by virtue of an Act of Parliament since he Order a Coral
they last pursuer
to Section 4(1) of the Emergency
Fovers (Defence);et, 1939.
で
Yours sincerely,
maz
look
may
Clause 1(2). Parage apple (ii) of the deferiction of "cuadiment"" strange, but it is uitended to calor for the possibiling that then be aders, like this one, made partly by wiitere jete prerogation and
mide statively. parth
it was
pours under the
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Clave 2(1), and comments overlon in correctiondence. In this firal draft
proposes to transfer all the Governor's yours Emergmay
Power (Refernce) And, 1939, to the Scartay of State or, in merchant stuffing maltin, to the humnister
War Transport, in termes michan to the one of the present clause 2 (3), but incorporatining
affee-aving
in the definition of "merchant" shipping functions". Clause 2(2) in its carteir form reformed och tio Part II of the art | 1932, Clause 2(3) orignially transford all function med under
words now
au
mackmeasti
to the Section
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