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Communications on this subject should

be addressed to

THE LEGAL SECRETARY

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

LAW OFFICERS' DEPARTMENT,

ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE,

LONDON, W.C.2.

Our Ref: 14/2/184

Your Ref: HKK 14/18

17 July,

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Dear Toay,

HICKLY /17

Miss Kelly

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PREVENTION OF BRIBERY ORDINANCE

Enter

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18/7

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file

for th

A.R.R.

A. R. RUSHFORD

I have shown the Solicitor-General your letter of 16 July. When the Attorney-General advised, in September 1970, that he would not be able to justify Section 10 of the Hong Kong Prevention of Bribery Bill, that Section did not contain sub-sections (2) and (4). The addition of these sub-sections does not, however, in the Solicitor-General's view dispose of the objections of legal principle. The Solicitor-General does not therefore dissent from the conclusion contained in paragraph 2 of your telegram 689 to Hong Kong, which is based on political grounds.

18.7.73

A. R. Rushford, Esq., CMG.,

Deputy Legal Adviser,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

Downing Street,

London.S.W.1.

Your

ever,

Muchool de Wata

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