CODE 18-77
CONFIDENTIAL
Mr Hum, HKD
HONG KONG:
LEGISLATION
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ник 040/53
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45OCT 1984
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UZ PA
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1. I have suggested some amendments to the draft minute attached to yours of 5 October. Since I have suggested that the minute should be copied to the Attorney General, and since it will quote the latter's advice, I have taken the precaution of checking that advice, as set out in Michael Saunder's letter to me of 2 April 1984. I have accordingly amended the relevant part of your draft to bring it closer into line with the Attorney's advice.
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On the penultimate page of your draft you seek to explain why a second Hong Kong Bill would not be very attractive. given is that there will be very little to go into it. think we must concede that it would be possible to put second Bill point (c) (modification of UK enactments). Kong's point of view it will be desirable to deal with that matter as soon as possible, but I would not envisage any serious inconvenience if it were delayed for a couple of years, by which time the second Bill would be needed in order to deal with nationality. I have, therefore, suggested an amendment to this passage. I have also discussed this with Mr Darwin who suggests that you might, if you wish, add a piece at the end of the relevant paragraph along the following lines:
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"Furthermore two or three years from now, whenthe good reception of the Agreement may have faded and difficulties in its implementation may have emerged and be under discussion, a second Hong Kong Bill might run into greater difficulties than we can now foresee.' 17
Finally, since the Secretary of State will be writing to the Lord President of the Council I have slipped into the end of the draft a request for his authority to engage Parliamentary Counsel to draft the Bill.
J. Burrows
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F Burrows
Legal Counsellor
5 October 1984
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