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10. Finally we might consider whether any special

conditions should attach to service under the Crown,

by which public servants should be made answerable

for their acts in all British territories.

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with the help of someone from the Law Officers

Department, to examine these possibilities with any

others. In doing so it might be relevant to consider

the situation in the Channel Islands, where there is

in many ways a closer constitutional parallel with

the dependent territories than in /the independent

Commonwealth countries.

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Order in Council is to be laid before Parliament

this should be done before the/Frime Minister goes

to Hong Kong in January. There is therefore a need

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