55334/46
OUTWARD
TELEGRAM
ORIGINAL REG OM
55234/48.
Cypher (0.T.P.)
TO (1) SINGAPORE, (2) MALAYAN UNION,
SINGAPORE
(3) HONG LONG
FROM S. OF S. COLONIES.
Sent 19th September, 1946.
1946. 19.15 hre.
Secret
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(1) No
1017
12)
2) No. 129
(3) No.
908
3
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Your despatch (1) No. 2 or 27th April, 1946
2) No. 4 0 29th April 19 (3) No. 4 of 18th May, 1946. No. I
#1
NO
regarding the Validating and Indemnity Ordin:nce 1946. I have had under consideration question of date to ot notified in the Gazette as the end of the "war period", You will appreciate that during the period of the Japane ac occupation and shortly after the defeat of Japen I was obliged to authorise certain types of expenditure not covered by existing legislation and regulations; and individual items of expenditure of those types are still being authorised by the Colonial Office without prior consultation with you. The expenditure concerned is mainly that relating to members of the local defence forces; members of passive defence services and temporary Government officials, and passages of ex-internees, This ad hoc war time procedure must of course be brought to an end as soon as possible, and the pre-war practice reverted to whereby the Colonial Office did not authorise expenditure from Colonial Government funds without prior reference to the Colonial Governments, except in certain routine cases or cases of small amounts. In the light of the above facts I should be glad of your views as to the 31st December 1946 being a reasonable date for the end of the "war period". In the meantime I am reviewing the position regarding the categories of expenditure in question and memoranda setting out the bases on which the expenditure has been incurred will be prepared at an early date and transmitted to you before 31st December in order that
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