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NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

Registry No.

HWB 14/34

DEPARTMENT

* Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should

reach addressee(s).

30

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION PRIORITY MARKINGS

-Top Secret

·Flash

*

Secret

Confidential

Restricted"

Unclassified

Immediate Priority /Routine

(Date).

Despatched

[Sec

Security classification

if any

[

Privacy marking -if any

[Codeword-if any]..

SAVING

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

En Clair.

Cyther

SAVINGRAM

Draft Telegrain to:-

GOVERNOR, HONG KONG

No...406 (Date) 22

27 June 1968

And to:-

telegram N..............

And to

repeated for information to

Addressed to

DESPATCH.

DAY

GOVERNOR HONG KONG

(date)

LIG

1968

Saving ................

Repeat to:-

Saving to:-

Distribution:--

Copies to:-

29/7

PUBLIC ORDER ORDINANCE

Your Saving despatch No.712 of 14 May, 1968.

Legal Advisers have now had an opportunity to consider

the

the report made by Committee of the Hong Kong Branch of

Justice on the Public Order Ordinance 1967 in the light of the

detailed and helpful comments forwarded by your Attorney-

General in his letter of 16 February 1968.

2. Subject to the comments which Legal Advisers have made on

and

Λ

certain paragraphs of the report, which are set out below,

Legal Advisers are in general agreement with the views of your

Attorney-General:

Paragraph 6. There would seem to be substance in the comments

of Justice on the definition of "public meeting"; and it may be

doubtful whether the interpretation given by the Commissioner

of Police is correct. fangdbrow

his interpretation,

/Paragraph 7.

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