TNAG-0928-FCO40-1146-Colonial-Regulations-in-the-Dependent-Territories-1980 — Page 24

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DRAFT LETTER

To:-

OAGS

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COLONIAL REGULATIONS

DSR 11

Type 1 +

From

RD CLIFT ESQ

Telephone No. Ext.

Department HK&GD

In Confidence

1.

At the Caribbean OAG's Conference in January 1979

us a

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HKGD were asked to carry out a review of Colonial Regu-

Jam sony that it has;

lations in order to update them. Jam

2.

I am afraid that, with the staff cuts in the Gen-

eral Section of this Department, we cannot now under-

take this task. I realise that a number of OAG's felt

that the Regulations were out of date and no longer

applicable to their territories. I know also that

some of you have it in mind to produce your own territ-

orial regulations, where these do not already exist.

3. I think that the latter individual approach is

probably the best way of tackling the overall problem.

If we

can work, as local needs demand, towards the

production of a series of individual territorial reg-

ulations these can provide the working rules for each

government to follow, can be couched in more up-to-

would /mean

date and less offensive language and mean that only

rarely need reference be made to CRS. We should of

course wish to see and approve any local regulations

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before they were veiced.

4.

I realise that this is throwing the work back

at you.

On the other hand if we had carried out a

review of CRS from this end we would in fact have had

to make heavy demands on you in any case.

We would

/inevitably

Dd 0532000 800M 5/78 HMSO Bracknell

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