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13 SEP 1984

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NJ Glover NTD

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RF Hoare Esq HKD

CONSULAR AGREEMENT: CHINESE VISA OFFICE

1.

2.

Thank you for your TL. of 5 September.

Our telno 1704 was intended only to signal agreement

to your providing Peking with the information on the

completion of the Visa Office procedures, contained in

para 2 of your TL. As agreed with the Chinese, we

would not (not) wish the Visa Office ordinance to

come into effect before the Consular Agreement.

3. If Peking agree, we propose that they should speak

to Consular Department on the lines of the second half

of your para 2 explaining the briefing process in

Hong Kong.

4.

On the UK side, we could not complete the procedures

giving the Consular Agreement force of law before

the end of November. The draft Order has to be

debated in both Houses of Parliament during November,

and will then be considered by the Privy Council,

probably at a meeting in the third week of November.

We are therefore aiming, if you and Peking agree,

for both the Consular Agreement and Visa Office

Ordinance to come into force by the end of November or

beginning of December, through the exchange of notes

/provided

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