CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
6 August 1979
A J Cragg Esq Head of DS5
Ministry of Defence
Main Building Whitehall
LONDON SW1A 2HB
HKK 341/3
RECOVER
Deak
INTER
Dear Authony,
AMENDMENT TO THE HONG KONG IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE
1. Thank you for your letter of 30 July. am sorry that we failed to consult you about the recent amendments to the Hong Kong Immigration. Ordinance. We certainly ought to have done. In mitigation I can only plead the speed with which we had to operate to meet the Hong Kong Government's deadline.
2.
You will have seen FCO telegram No 617 to Hong hong, which I hope you will regard as satisfactory. There has so far been no reply from Hong Kong, but the Hong Kong Government may well feel that we ought to have pointed out this defect in their Bill before it passed into Law Con 1 August).
Your cicerely,
form Mcharen
RJT MCLaren
Hong Kong and General Department
CC
Mr Watkins, Defence Department
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