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HKK 18/28

18/28(9)

of twelve such Regulations with effect from 20 June, 1969. The

twelve Regulations in question included the contentious Emergency

(Principal) Regulation 31 (which conferred the power of detention)

and its attendant Regulations. News of this step was announced by

Lord Shepherd on 19 June in the House of Lords in reply to a

Question by Lord Sorensen (Hansard extract attached). There are

now only six Emergency (Principal) Regulations still in force and

these will be discontinued as soon as practicable. One of these

remaining Regulations deals with the posting or distribution of

inflammatory placards etc; another concerns the powers of police

and military personnel to require members of the public to

identify themselves; a third relates to the obstruction of police

and military personnel acting in the course of their duty. It is

the Governor's intention to discontinue these three Regulations

as soon as similar provisions have been embodied into the permanent

law. The fourth remaining Regulation confers the power to make

Police Supervisory Orders and will need to continue in force for

so long as the five Orders referred to in paragraph 2 above remain

valid. The other two Regulations are purely interpretative and

procedural but they too will be needed for so long as the other

four remaining Regulations continue in force.

Emergency (Deportation and Detention) Regulations

4. It is possible (although unlikely) that Mr. Rankin will refer

by supplementary Question to the existence of these Regulations.

They are in a separate and distinct category from the Emergency (Principal) Regulations. They have been in force since 1956 and

apply only to aliens held pending deportation.

They are required

/ because