CO129-594-7 Proposed legislation to regularise registration of births- marriages and deaths in Stanley internment camp during... 16-10-1945 - 19-12-1946 — Page 33

paragraph of your despatch.

3.

If, however, it should transpire that any of

the parties concerned are placed in legal difficulties

their having purplex as Valid as the result of any of the decrees nisi or decrees

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absolute which were pronounced by the Chief Justice

during the internment period and which are now to be

considered as invalid, it will clearly be desirable

to reconsider the question of validating legislation.

You may perhaps think it desirable to cause the parties concerned,in other cases than the one in which Messrs. Maddin are acting, to be notified that it is not proposed to introduce validating legislation so as to give them an opportunity of making representations if they find themselves to be in

some legal difficulty as the result of this decision.

I have, etc.,