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To:- P Blaker Esq MP
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From Mr Royle
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I am replying to your letter of 26 August about the
Hong Kong Immigration Bill.
Although the Bill has been introduced into the Hong Kong
Legislative Council some of its provisions are still the
subject of correspondence between this department and
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the Bill
the Governor and will be amended in certain respects
before it is enacted (probably at the beginning of
October).
The Bill does not seek to impose on citizens of the
United Kingdom and Colonies any restrictions on their restrictions freedom of entry into Hong Kong other than those which
have been in existence for several years. However, one
purpose of the Bill is to facilitate the removal from
(Who are not Hong Kong of any persons (whether British subjects-er belongers of Hong Kong) is not, in the opinion
~ the aliens) whose behaviour has been' such as to make their
Garnow in Council,
including
presence in the Colony net conducive to the public good.
may
You wil like to see the enclosed copy of the
Explanatory Memorandum on the Bill which has been
prepared by the Acting Attorney General, Hong Kong, and
which lists those changes of substance which the Bill
seeks to make in the Colony's system of immigration
control.
The Memorandum relates, of course, to the Bill
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