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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

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The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

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To ask the Secretary

Mr. Leo Abse (Pontypool): of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Committee of Review established under the Hong Kong Emergency Regulations is an exclusively administrative and advisory body without any judicial functions; and what procedures for appeal were and are open to the 54 Chinese detained without trial.

DRAFT ANSTER

17th December, 1968

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The Committee of Review is a statutory advisory body, without

any judicial functions, to which a detained person may lodge

objections against his detention. The right to lodge such

objections is notified to each detained person when the detention

order is delivered to him or as soon as practicable thereafter.

Such objections may be lodged immediately after the making of a

detention order and thereafter at intervals of not less than

two months.

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