TNAG-1400-FCO40-1872-Future-of-Hong-Kong-Ministry-of-Defence-(MOD)-property-1985 — Page 35

CONFIDENTIAL covering SECRET

布政司署

香港下亞厘畢道

OUR REF.:

來函檔號 YOUR REF.:

DIEU

HKK 040/23

"SAY

22 FEB 1983

1

GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

My See (45)

New file?

February 1985

1985 fwR Refs.

A C Galsworthy Esq.,

Hong Kong Department FCO

Ружет

To suutinize

Dear Tuny,

MOD PROPERTY IN HONG KONG

HKK 040/2

45

Please refer to Christopher Humm's letter of 16 November 1984 to me. I enclose a copy of a memo from the Registrar-General to the Solicitor General setting out in brief the answers to the questions in Christopher Humm's letter under reference. I also enclose copies of the fuller note compiled in the Registrar General's department and referred to in para 1 of Mr Gleeson's memo. Finally, I enclose copies of a range of illustrative documents also compiled by the Registrar General's department.

I hope this somewhat indigestible mass will be of use. To my layman's eye, the crucial point appears to be that in para 2(i) of Mr Gleeson's memo, namely that none of these arrangements in any way affects legal title to the land which remains vested in the Crown, and could therefore be transferred to any statutory land authority, if one were created.

Yours eve.

Richard.

(R P Margolis)

Deputy Political Adviser

cc P A B Thomson Esq., HM Embassy, Peking (with copy of Mr Gleeson's

memo only)

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