TNAG-1395-FCO40-1867-Future-of-Hong-Kong-Parliamentary-debates-1985 — Page 67

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This paragraph deals with largely technical issues and is unlikely

to be controversial.

Parliament was to press for positive resolution procedures in the case of such Orders in Council we could accept such a provision although this could prove to be very time consuming if there had to be large numbers of Orders.

could

resort we

Parliamentary

even

drop this

part

of the

Bill

opposition, as it is not

ratification of the agreement.

This

would

In the last

face of

for the

in the

essential

however

require us to present a second Bill at a later date.

inevitably

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