TNAG-0582-FCO40-715-Requisitioning-of-Ships-Order-1969-validity-of-order-need-f-1976 — Page 54

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香港下亞畢道

本署檔號 OUR REF.: TSX 2/54

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Dear Mr Wilberforce

RECEIVED IN

REGISTRY NO. 51

3 1 AUG 1976

2064/518/1

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Requisitioning of Ships Order, 1969

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C.S. 41A

COLONIAL SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

30th July, 1976

(36 on HKK 10/8)

Please refer to F.C.O. Saving Despatch No. 565 of 29th December, 1969, to the Governor, Hong Kong. I should be grateful if you would confirm that the 1969 Order is still in force. Assuming that it is, it would be useful if you could say to whom functions are likely to be delegated, under section 3 of the Order.

For your information we are currently reviewing local procedures for the requisitioning of ships as part of a wider review of our emergency legislation and I have suggested to Mr. Wickson, of your department, that it might be useful if our Director of Marine, Mr. Alan Fletcher, could discuss this with interested parties when he is in London in August.

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Yous minty

Minhist

(H.M.A. Bristow)

for Secretary for Security

Mr. W.J.A. Wilberforce

Head of Defence Department

Room W64

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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