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F Burrows Esq CMG
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Je Mr. Pakenham Walsh H.O.
M. Saunders L.O.D.
Mr. Thomas Q.C., A-G
Hong Kong,
2. Hong Kong Dept. bRAR.
4. B. 30/11
30 November 1984
Dear Burrows
Here is a revised draft of the Bill in which I have tried to deal with the points in
your letters of 26 and 29 November some of which we have discussed.
Clause 2(2)
I think it can fairly be said that paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Schedule are
consequential on or connected with clause 1(1), i.e. the change of status of Hong
Kong in 1997. I do not think that "consequential" has any chronological significance.
It is propter hoc not post hoc. But whatever is not "consequential" is certainly
"connected" with that change of status. Paragraph 4 of the Schedule is of course
consequential on or connected with the part of the Joint Declaration dealing with the
Liaison Group.
Schedule, para 1.
The definition of "enactment" is relevant to paragraphs 2(3)(b) and 3(1)(a), (b) and (c).
You will see that it excludes the Bill itself and instruments made under the Bill,
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