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No. HKK 14/4
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Restricted.
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
DRAFT
To:-
Gerald de Basto, Esq., Hong Kong Bar Association, Secretary's Chambers,
218 Marina House, Hong Kong.
Type 1 +
From
Lord Shepherd
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
..In Confidence
I am sorry
you
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lasher reply;
Thank you for your letter of 3 December,
concerning the current proposals for legislation
in respect of Chinese marriages in Hong Kong.
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I am sorry for the delay in replying but, as you
may
no doubt know, I have only recently returned from
Nigeria.
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In your letter you said that you have no
information whatsoever as to the nature of any
draft legislation that the Hong Kong Government
be contemplating
may put forward, beyond the proposals made
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public in reports and White Papers over several
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years.
In the circumstances I feel that you Back to promote
Association's
should discuss your views with the appropriate
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Government departments in Hong Kong, to whom
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you have no doubt sent copies of your report.
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I am sure that they will consider the views of
call interested parties before publishing the
now Graft legislation.
I am confident twal When legislation has been drafted & subsuilled, as it will be, to this offices, it will reflect the years of careful studen & concultation with representations of organs of public opinion which it will have
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