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..In Confidence
DRAFT letter
To:-
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T. E. Roberts, Esq., 0.B.E.
Attorney General, Hong Kong.
Q.C.
Type 1 +
From
Sir James McPetrie, KCMG
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OBE.
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Hak. 18/11.
wtTelene i hoes on leave)
I am replying to your letter of 1 May in which
you raise the question of the delays encountered in
obtaining the comments of the F.C.0. on Bills and
other legal matters sent to us from Hong Kong.
I appreciate that you have written to me on this
subject because all the matters that you mention
involve legislation in one form or another.
course, always ready to accept the responsibility for
ept
I am, of
any delays which may be directly attributable to short-
comings on the part of my own staff. But the items
that you list in your letter range far beyond the
purely legal field and are the responsibility of a
number of different Departments in the Office. I
therefore thought it best to bring your letter to
the notice of those Departments and this I have done.
In your letter you mention the dates on which
the different communications relating to the various
matters raised were sent to us; and the implication
seems to be that Hong Kong are still awaiting replies
to those communications.
However, I understand that
in certain cases replies have already been sent although
finality may not necessarily have been reached. For
example, in the case of the Hong Kong (Non-Domiciled
Parties) Divorce (Amendment) Rules, a reply was sent
to Hong Kong in our Saving Despatch No. 122 of 24
March, 1969; I am told that in this particular case
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