TNAG-0030-FCO40-66-Relations-with-China-1968 — Page 68

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6.

(a) allow the Governor to release on license any

prisoner sentenced to a period of not less than, say, six months imprisonment.

(b) the license would provide for the recall of the

offender to prison to serve the remainder of his sentence, calculated from the date of his release.

(c)

consideration would have to be given to the kinds of conditions that could be laid down in the license to suit the special circumstances we are dealing with in Hong Kong.

I do not think that any of the existing colonial ordinances or any model from the United Kingdom would be useful. I would suggest, therefore, that we might send another kind of letter setting out the ideas int this minute and inviting the Governor to consult his own law officers with a view to framing a draft law to suit local conditions.

7. I think we need a law for Hong Kong sufficiently elastic to enable the purposes of release on license for ordinary habitual criminal offenders to be served as well as the special purposes you have in mind.

Mr. Gammara

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(R. TERRELL)

22 February, 1968

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