TNAG-0291-FCO40-327-Constitutional-development-of-Hong-Kong-1971 — Page 35

5.

I have picked on the Solomons Islands provision as an example merely because it was convenient to hand.

There are similar provisions in other territories and DGTD could extract from other Dependent Territories Constitutions a range of further examples. Its embodiment in Constitutional Instruments

for Hong Kong would in any event presumably have to take a special

at mot

form since those instruments), as is the general rule elsewhere, embodied in an Order of Council but in a combination of Royal Instructions and Letters Patent.

ABL17.

(L Monson)

13 September 1971

Mr Bell.

I do not recollect seeing this idea mentioned

premnously in connexion with Hong Kong.

Will

you

.fr. obtain the samples mentioned at xl abon.

бый

These

pp. should so

file.

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