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With regard to the present Establishment Regulations, dealing with unexplained resources, I doubt whether statistics of the number of times we have used them would be any sort of a guide to the number of occasions when we could, and would have liked to, have used them. They have, in fact, more or less fallen into disuse, mainly because of the distaste for them which was, I am told, shown by the Colonial Office in the
past.
You mention that the issues involved in clause 10
are of a kind such as to require consultation with the Law Officers, before submission to Ministers, in accordance with
a recent Prime Minister's directive. We have never heard of
this directive before and would be grateful if we could be supplied with a copy, for guidance in the future as well as
in this context.
Would you please, as matter of urgency, reconsider your view that the inclusion of clause 10 must be referred to Minister? If you are unable to agree that it may remain in the Bill, would try to let me know this by telegram within the next two weeks? We will then send a formal government request
that the matter should be referred to Ministers for decision.
We are anxious to get this Bill moving as soon as possible, and would be grateful if you would do your best to
see that whatever decisions are required are taken with a
minimum of delay.
ever,
Yours ly
(D.T.E. Roberts)
Attorney General
W.S. Carter, Esq., C.V.0., Hong Kong Department,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
LONDON S.W.1.
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