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(3) IF IN THE SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF ANY PARTICULAR CASE

THE SECRETARY OF STATE THINKS FIT, HE MAY FOR THE PURPOSES

OF SUBSECTION (2) DO ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING THINGS,

NAMELY

(A) TREAT THE PERSON TO WHOM THE APPLICATION RELATES AS

FULFILLING THE REQUIREMENT SPECIFIED IN SUBSECTION (2)(A) OR SUBSECTION (2)(B), OR BOTH, ALTHOUGH THE NUMBER OF

DAYS ON WHICH HE WAS ABSENT FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM IN

THE PERIOD THERE MENTIONED EXCEEDS THE NUMBER THERE

MENTIONED:

(B) DISREGARD ANY SUCH RESTRICTION AS IS MENTIONED IN

SUBSECTION (2)(C), NOT BEING A RESTRICTION TO WHICH THAT

PERSON WAS SUBJECT ON THE DATE OF THE APPLICATION:

(C) TREAT THAT PERSON AS FULFILLING THE REQUIREMENT

SPECIFIED IN SUBSECTION (2)(D) ALTHOUGH HE WAS IN THE

UNITED KINGDOM IN BREACH OF THE IMMIGRATION LAWS IN THE

PERIOD THERE MENTIONED.

SECTIONS 4 AND 5 ARE EXACTLY AS IN PARAGRAPH 1 OF TUR.

CARRINGTON

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LIMITED

HKGD

NTD

PS/MR RIDLEY

SIR E.YOUDE

PS/MR BLAKER

MR DONALD

MR ADAMS

PS/MR LUCE

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COPIES TO:

HONG KONG GOVT OFFICE LDN.

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