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NOTES FOR SUPPLEMENTARIES

Continued powers of detention

Emergency Regulation 31 will continue to be required so

long as it remains necessary to hold persons in detention.

2.

The power of detention will not be retained longer than

is necessary in the interests of security (see reply to Question

by the Member for Preston, North, on 16 December 1968).

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3.

The case for continued detention is reviewed regularly

and frequently by the authorities.

Emergency Regulations Generally

4.

The majority of the emergency regulations now in force

were introduced during Communist confrontation in 1967. Some

of them have already been revoked (e.g. regulations dealing

with intimidation, the disposal of assemblies and the prohibition

of meetings).

Number of persons now in detention

5.

There are now six persons in detention under emergency

regulations in Hong Kong.

Reasons for detention

6.

Those in detention were implicated in the planning and

organisation of various Communist confrontation activities,

including intimidation and bomb incidents.