7. The following courses are now open to us:
(1) We may accept the Ordinance as enacted and inform
the Governor that Her Majesty's power of disallowance
will not be exercised.
(2)
Her Majesty may exercise her power of disallowance,
in which case the Governor would be informed accordingly
(NB to adopt such a course would be an extreme measure
which is very rarely followed).
(3) We may ask the Governor to take steps to remedy the
situation by the enactment of amending legislation
and inform him that in the meantime no advice will be
terdered to Her Majesty regarding the exercise of her
pavers of disallowance. (This would, of course,
be a warning to the Governor that the power of
disallowance might be exercised if the Ordinance were
not amended.)
(4) We may inform the Governor as in (1) above but ask
him at the same time to consider amending the
Ordinance in order to give effect to the views of
Ministers (see paragraph 4 above).
ARGUMENTS AGAINST ALLOWING THE ORDINANCE TO REMAIN AS IT IS
8.
(1)
these
The position under the Ordinance as it now stands
could give rise to objections by way of petition to Her Majesty's Government from those concerned;
objections might be based either on hypothetical
grounds or on an actual case of removal or deportation
and might advance the argument that it would be
inequitable for Hong Kong to be allowed to divide
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