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P.R.H. 7
RECHVID IN REGISTRY No. 51 - SNOV 1970
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
NFORMATION SERVICES
DAILY INFORMATION
BULLETIN
HKKIG/19
Wednesday, October 21, 1970
PREVENTION OF BRIBERY BILL 1970
Some Surrender Of Privacy For The Common Good
The Prevention of Bribery Bill 1970 introduced novel and wide
powers of investigation that could cause annoyance and inconvenience but it was hoped the public would regard that as a reasonable price to pay for arming those who enforced the law with adequate powers to do so.
Mr. D.T.E. Roberts, Attorney General, said this today when he moved
the Bill's second reading in the Legislative Council.
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Though much of it was aimed, directly or indirectly, at the public
the service, ho believed it had the support of the bulk of its members groat majority of whom were "loyal, hard-working and wholly honest men.'
They detested corruption as much as any member of the public, and they resented the manner in which the conduct of a few of their colleagues
soiled the roputation of their service as a whole.
Mr. Roberts said it was "impossible to assess with any accuracy"
the extent to which society in Hong Kong was affected by corruption. The number of cases reported to the police and the number of convictions obtained could not be rogarded as any indication of the roal extent of the problem, since there was soldom any complaint from the man who got what he had paid
his bribe for.
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