CO129-616-6 Hotels Ordinance- 1949 21-2-1949 - 21-2-1949 — Page 49

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INWARD TELEGRAM

TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES

COPY FOR REGISTRATION

FROM HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)

22nd April 1949

Dr Re 22nd

09.50 hrs,

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IMPORTANT

No. 362 Confidential

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Your telegram No. 378.

Hotel Ordinance.

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It is relevant to note that 65 of the 83 hotels which are members of the Hotel Association are not in fact being controlled. The petition is thought to etem partly from their early fears that they would be controlled. I do not favour holding out any promise of an Advisory Committee because

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(a) the control is working smoothly`

(b)

there has been no public demand for such a body and

(c) the introduction of such a Committee would tend

to make control procedure unnecessarily cumbersome.

Any new regulation and any amendment to the regulation made in reliance of Section 4(1)(e) requires submission to me and approval by resolution of Legislative Council, I consider this provides an adequate safeguard against any possibility that Regulations more onerous than Regulation 10 in Schedule to the Ordinance will be made on the subject of the supply of service by any hotel affected by legislation. I do not therefore see the neeû

for amendment.

In view of the above and of experience in operating control, I do not consider that any concession is necessary.