(118281) Dd. 391599 1,500M 2/69 Hw.
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
Registry No. HKK 16/2
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted.
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
CONFIDENTIAL
DRAFT LETTER
Type 1 +
From
To:- Sir Hugh Norman-Walker,
KCMG., OBE.,
Colonial Secretary, HONG KONG,
E. 0. Laird
Telephone No. & Ext
Department Hong/Kong
In Confidence
Will you please refer to the Governor's saving
despatch No. 603 of 16 May about copyright legislation?
mnd- 鬼
I am writing to) apologise for the protracted
delay which has occurred at this end in dealing with
this matter. This has been/due to a number of factors,
the main one being the extreme complexity of the issues
involved and their very fonsiderable political content, There wa
also of cough u
the
(as well as the recently pending) appeal to the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council which have now been dis-
is not so much the application to Hong
posed of.
[It
Kong of the Copyright Act, 1956, which presents dif-
ficulties as the combined effects of the Act and clause
4 of the Hong Kong Copyright Bill. But we have under-
stood that the view in Hong Kong is that it would not
be desirable to defer the enactment of clause 4, since
it is the proposed copyright in television broadcasts
the
and festriction on Rediffusion of copyright broadcasts
which are the nub of the matter.
We are now pressing ahead with the finishing
touches to a draft submission on the whole subject.
We shall (then) have to clear the draft with the Board
of Trade before submitting it to Ministers and I am
afraid that we look like running into further delays
as a result of the forthcoming General Election.
CONFIDENTIAL
14.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.