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With my savingram No. 70, I sent you a

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paper summarising our plans for dealing with various items of emergency legislation introduced in 1967. will be glad to hear that we have now completed a study of our remaining active emergency legislation brought into force prior to 1967, much of it in fact in 1950, and the attached paper sets out recommendations on this score which I have agreed to. Executive Council will be informed, but formal submission to Council is not necessary.

The net result will be the continuance in force of Emergency (Principal) Regulations 37 and 40 for the time being; the repeal of E.P.R. 50, 51 and 25 (the last when similar provision has been made in our permanent legislation); and the discontinuance of the remaining 26 E.P.R.s.

Orders will now be made under Section 35 of the Public Order Ordinance but there is no danger in this. They will not be gazetted, as they are simply administrative directions, and will remain unknown except 1st enclosure. to the officers concerned.

When all this is announced the point will be made that this wholesale discontinuance of E.P.R.S was not possible in the past, the provision for doing so having been introduced only in 1968. We will of course present these decisions as part of a comprehensive study of emergency legislation in force since 1950.

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Sir Arthur Catsworthy, K.C.M.G.,

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