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Mr Logan

HONG KONG IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE 1971

1. On 3 August Mr Ben Ford MP wrote to Mr Royle asking if

he could be provided with a copy of the Hong Kong Immigration

Bill which had been introduced into the Legislative Council

in July, together with an explanation of the new measure.

2. Mr Godber replied to Mr Ford on 9 August saying that a

copy of the legislation would be sent to Mr Ford as soon as

possible after it had been enacted, together with an explanatory

memorandum.

3.

The Bill was enacted by the Hong Kong Legislative Council

on 13 October and we have received copies of the resulting

Immigration Ordinance.

We are therefore now in a position

to send a copy to Mr Ford.

4.

The draft

I attach a draft letter for the purpose.

follows the lines of a letter sent by Mr Royle to Mr Blaker

on 30 September in response to a similar enquiry. At that

time the Bill had not been enacted and Mr Royle sent

Mr Blaker a copy of the Acting Attorney General's explanatory

memorandum on the Bill. However, the Bill was amended in

several respects in the course of its passage through the

legislature and the explanatory memorandum is now out of date

in a number of respects.

5.

I accordingly recommend that we do not send a copy of the

explanatory memorandum to Mr Ford but that instead an

explanation of certain aspects of the Ordinance be embodied

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