CO129-615-2 Income tax 10-3-1947 - 6-2-1948 — Page 8

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Messrs. Morris and Norris:

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Appointments Branch, and is being dealt

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Mr. Mayle.

1. Mr. McPetrie is unable to examine this Ordinance for the moment. He has asked that W take consideration of it as far as we can for the present without detailed examination by the Legal Advisers, recirculating the file to him later for this purpose. Detailed legal examination of the Ordinance will be very necessary since the original ill drafted by Mr. Pudney in London at the end of last year (and registered at No. 3 on 54307/46) was not seen by the Legal Advisers. In the interests of speed however it will be desirable to send copies of No.18

and its enclosures to the Board of Inland Revenue (Mr. Gilbert) and the Treasury as quickly as possible so that they can be considering the Ordinance concurrently with its detailed examination here by Finance Department and the Legal Advisers.

2. No. 18 gives a very full account of the phases through which the Bill passed before it became law, and of the various modifications it under-went in the process. A preview of some of these was given in Sir M. Young's telogram st NOJS. “I think the Hong Kong Administration are to be congratulated on the fact that, in spite of very considerable earlier opposition, the Bill was finally passed without the use of the Official majority, with four unofficials (including one Chinese) out of a total of Swen unofficials voting in its favour.

I agree with Mr. Falmer that our eply to No. 18 should express appreciation of the manner in which the Bill was put through.

3.

In accepting the various modifications, Sir M. Young had in mind not only the necessity

of