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former concept to the Chinese public of

Hong Kong.

We do not know whether your Legal

Draftsman, when preparing the draft Bill,

had access to any precedents other than

those of the United Kingdom and New Zealand,

but you may be interested to see the enclosed

copies of the following documents: -

(a) Those sections of the Guyana

Independence Order, 1966, which

relate to the establishment,

powers and functions of a post

of Ombudsman;

(b) The annual report of the Guyana

Ombudsman for 1967 (the first

full year of his operations);

(c) the relevant extract from the

report of the Fiji Constitutional

Conference of 1970;

(a) those sections of the draft

Fiji Independence Order, 1970,

which relate to the establishment

powers and functions of a post

of Ombudsman.

The above documents are not, of course,

particularly appropriate precedents for Hong

Kong since they relate to independent (or

shortly to be independent) territories;

but they may give you some ideas and afford

you some general guidance in the final

framing of your Bill. I should perhaps

mention that in the case of Fiji we

consider here that the duties to be put

upon the Ombudsman have been overloaded

- certainly before his capacity has been

tested in practice.

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