TNAG-0189-FCO40-225-Chinese-marriages-in-Hong-Kong-1969 — Page 19

FCO40 Hong Kong Department Records 聯邦事務部香港部檔案 All

Registry

No. HKK 14/4

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret. Secret. Confidential,

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

how not

Dar

lasher reply;

Thank you for your letter of 3 December,

concerning the current proposals for legislation

in respect of Chinese marriages in Hong Kong.

neputy

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

1

public in reports and White Papers over several

Ahris

years.

In the circumstances I feel that you Back to promote

Association's

should discuss your views with the appropriate

Α

Government departments in Hong Kong, to whom

intersting

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

Archived.

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