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CODE 18 - 77

Mr McLaren

Reference

SECRET

HONG KONG: NEW TERRITORIES LEASES

Tel No 222: will the following do, with or without the bit in brackets? If these are retained it would go in Article 1; if not as a separate Article at the end headed:

"Continued operation of Order of 1898"

A.R.R.

A R Rushford Deputy Legal Adviser

7 February 1979

The Order of Her Majesty in Council made in respect of the New Territories on 20th November 1898 shall continue in

operation but shall have effect subject to the provisions of this Order; [and that Order and this Order shall be read as

one and may be cited together as the Hong Kong (New Territories) Order 1898 and 1979]

Her 2011.

SECRET

No