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which is clearly most unsatisfactory. It is there fore essential to have, as a last resort after all normal channels for reaching agreement have been exhausted, a power to suspend without pay.
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The Attorney General has advised that suspension without pay requires the authority of Colonial Regulations. Perhaps a new regulation after Colonial Regulation 41 would be an appropriate context.
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Would you agree to a Colonial Regulation on these lines? It would, of course, only be used to protect the public interest after all normal channels for reaching agreement had been tried. It would still be our aim to resolve disputes in the normal way by discussion "within the family" and in accordance with procedures based on practice in Britain which we are now working out for agreement with the Staff Side.
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(R.G.B. Bridge)
Secretary for the Civil Service
S.T. Kidd, Esq., CBE,
The Hong Kong Commissioner,
Hong Kong Government Office, London
6 Grafton Street,
London W1X 3LB, U.K.
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