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TELEGRAM

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Security Classification

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HONG KONG

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Distribution:-

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HKIOD

GGD

Legal Advisers

1.

Copies to:-

Your telno. 1510.

Compulsory retirement of

We will consider further, in the light of your

representations, whether a reduction of pension is or is

not formally a punishment. This is relevant to the general.

question of HKCR 62 (your telegram no. 1446).

2.

Our preliminary view is, however, that since the

penalties enumerated in HKCR 54(3) include several, such as

a reprimand, which are undoubtedly less severe than a

reduction of pension, it would be difficult and anomalous

to argue that this penalty is excluded from the

definition.

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3.

In the case of

however it seems to us that

there is no need to take a final decision on this point.

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