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Note No. 7
VISIT OF DEPUTY UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE
(SIR LESLIE MONSON)
TO HONG KONG, OCTOBER, 1969
EMERGENCY LEGISLATION AND THE PUBLIC ORDER
ORDINANCE
BACKGROUND
Emergency Legislation
Nearly all emergency legislation in Hong Kong has
now been either revoked or suspended. This applies both
to emergency legislation which, for one reason or
another, had been in force prior to the disturbances of
1967 and to the considerable body of such legislation
which was brought into force during 1967 in order to
deal with those disturbances. The only emergency
legislation now in force in the Colony is confined to
the Emergency (Detention and Deportation of Aliens)
Regulations (which have been in force in one form or
another since 1956 and which, in the particular circum-
stances of the Colony, are required on a permanent
basis because of the virtual impossibility of deporting
anyone to China); and to a dozen other regulations which
will be either revoked or discontinued as soon as their
provisions have been incorporated in permanent legisla-
tion. None of these remaining Regulations is of a
contentious character.
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