TNAG-1379-FCO40-1827-Future-of-Hong-Kong-legislation-Hong-Kong-Bill-1985 — Page 137

VARIANT B

If HMOCS paper agreed by OD (K)

SCHEDULE : PARAGRAPH THREE

NOTE ON AMENDMENTS

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ADAPTATION OF LAW

Lord Gridley

Schedule, page 2, line 43, at end insert: -

("; and

(c) as

or

to the public service of Hong Kong and persons being members former members thereof (including provision for the discharge of obligations to, or otherwise compensating, such persons and for the apportionment of liabilities arising therefrom).")

ACTUAL TEXT

ADAPTATION OF LAW

3.-(1) Her Majesty may before the relevant date by Order in Council make such provision as appears to Her Majesty to be necessary or expedient in consequence of or in connection with the provisions of section 1(1) of this Act-

(a) for repealing or amending any enactment SO far as it is part of the law of Hong Kong; and

(b) for enabling the legislature of Hong Kong to repeal or amend any enactment SO far as it is part of that law and to make laws having extra-territorial operation.

[The amendment would appear here]

after the relevant date by Order

appears to Her Majesty to be

(2) Her Majesty may before, on or in Council make such provision as

necessary or expedient in consequence of or in connection with the provisions of section 1(1) of this Act for repealing or amending, far as it relates to Hong Kong, any enactment forming part of the law of, or of any part of, the United Kingdom or of a British

possession other than Hong Kong and any provision contained in Northern Ireland legislation.

SO