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that privision would be used very sparingly.

The Home Secretary will be concerned that any different impression of the amendment given in Hong Kong is likely

3.

a.

to make it much more difficult for the Government to get the amendment approved in Parliament; and

b. to be extremely embarrassing in future, given the tendency for

dependencies to make maximum use and freest interpretation of alleged promises.