TNAG-1353-FCO40-1794-Constitutional-development-in-Hong-Kong-1985 — Page 49

Mr Leeks, HKD

Ch. 11/3

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12 MAR 1985

FROM:

Paul Fifoot

DATE: 11 March 1985-1

AMENDING LETTERS PATENT AND ADDITIONAL ROYAL INSTRUCTIONS

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I have now had an opportunity of checking these proofs.

The only amendment that needs to be made to the draft

Letters Patent is that "instructions" in the first line of

new Article VI (3) should have a capital "I".

3.

With regard to the Royal Instructions, I have made two

editorial changes as follows:-

The last line of Clause 1(4) should read "before the

date of coming into operation of the Hong Kong Letters

Patent 1985.". I think it is desirable to make it

clear that the governing document is the Letters Patent in case there are, by chance, different dates of operation for the Letters Patent and the additional

Instructions;

The passage in quotations in the last line of

Clause 8 should read "Article VI (1) (b) of Our Letters

Patent as set out in the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1985".

3. Would you make these changes on the drafts you send to

Hong Kong.

Paul Fifoot

Deputy Legal Adviser

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