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Civil Aviation Licensing Act 1960

Carriage by Air Act 1961

Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act

Fugitive Offenders Act 1967

Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971

Hijacking Act 1971

Civil Aviation Act 1977

in Council

The bulk of the Orders

under this paragraph will be to

amend or replace or to enable the Hong Kong legislature to replace United Kingdom statutes to the extent that they form part of the law

of Hong Kong. The minority of other orders will generally be used to remove references to Hong Kong which it will be inappropriate to

retain as part of the law of the UK when Hong Kong ceases to be a British dependent territory.

There are likely to be a very

the next 12 years.

Even i f

large number of such amendments during

as many as possible were to be grouped

together in Orders in Council they would create a substantial amount of work for Parliament under positive resolution procedures.

The

resolution

Government is therefore convinced that negative

procedures are the most suitable in the case of this paragraph.

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