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up while consulting the precedents, but I will let you have a

further minute in due course.

16. I have attached the amended drafts of the Letters Patent

and Royal Instructions with manuscript amendments which probably

make my comments and suggestions easier to identify than if I

were to have the draft retyped.

17. On the timing of these instruments, there are meetings

of the Privy Council on 13 February and 20 March. I think

that we will probably have to aim for 20 March.

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Paul Fifoot

Deputy Legal Adviser