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Mr W:

Wilford

IMMIGRATION AND DEPORTATION LEGISLATION

1. You will remember that I mentioned Hong Kong's new immigra- tion and deportation legislation at Sir L Monson's meeting last Tuesday. I suggest that the next step should be to write to Hong Kong on the lines of the attached draft. The draft has been cleared with Migration and Visa Department and the Legal Advisers.

2. As you will see, our purpose at this stage is to find out precisely why Hong Kong wants these greater powers of deportation and detention. Judging from what Mr Dawson told Mr Royle last week they are concerned with the activities of about six British subjects. I sympathize with them on this point but I am not sure that this new legislation is the right way of dealing with the problem, if that is all it amounts to.

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When the letter has gone, I propose to consult West Indian Department on the stage reached in the drafting of comparable legislation in Montserrat, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands.

1 February 1971

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