TNAG-0551-FCO40-646-Allegations-of-corruption-and-bribery-in-Hong-Kong-police-an-1975 — Page 148

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19 MAY ¡975

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HKK 14/1

Our red: EVD 21/1/1

B H Dinwiddy Esq

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16 May 1975

Dear Dinwiddy,

I am sorry not to have written before to thank you for your very helpful letter of 14th April about the law of corruption in Hong Kong and the Independent Commission against Corruption.

Although the Commission's terms of reference are restricted to the UK, I am sure that they will find the information you have provided very useful by way of comparison and contrast. I think what you have sent us will be very adequate to give us a general picture of the Hong Kong situation. I wonder, however, if I might take up your kind offer to provide us with further information on a very specific point that arises on paragraph 7 of the second report by Sir Alastair Blair-Kerr. He refers there to Sections 3 and 4 of the Misdemeanours Punishment Ordinance 1898 which apparently purported to put into statutory form the common law rules on the prevention of bribery; as this is a point we are also considering, I should be very grateful if you were able to obtain for us a copy of those Sections of that Ordinance if that is not too much trouble.

us;

Incidentally, may we keep the documents you have already sent or will you want them returned in due course?

Yours sincerely,

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