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3 August 1984

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Sir P Cradock

Sir J Freeland

Parliamentary Unit

Mr MacInnes

Head, PSD

Head, PPD

HONG KONG : TEST OF ACCEPTABILITY

1.

on

You

Thank you for your minute of 2 August (not copied to all).

asked for further advice before the Secretary of State goes

holiday at lunchtime today. In the time available it has not been

possible to resolve all outstanding points, but this submission sets

out where matters now stand.

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE ASSESSMENT OFFICE

2.

B

attached

C

astiached

I attach draft terms of reference for the assessment office,

closely based on the draft given to us in Hong Kong. The changes

which I have suggested are minor ones. In para 3 of the original

draft the Secretary of State queried a reference to "a United

Kingdom White Paper". This point is dealt with below. In the

context of the terms of reference I think it is sufficient to refer

to "a White Paper".

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE MONITORING TEAM

3.

team.

I also attach proposed terms of reference for the monitoring

These are also based on a Hong Kong draft, but less closely

In particular I think that the original draft was wrong to suggest

that the team would ensure that the assessment is properly carried out and follows faithfully the prescribed procedure. The task of

the monitoring team should be to observe and report on whether this

has been done, not to ensure that it is done. It will not have

formal power to direct the operations of the assessment office.

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