TNAG-1455-FCO40-1978-Hong-Kong-Letters-Patent-amendments-1986 — Page 7

DSR 11 (Revised Sept 85)

DRAFT: minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note

FROM:

SECRETARY OF STATE

DEPARTMENT:

BUILDING:

TYPE: Draft/Final 1 +

Reference

DOGAGV

TEL. NO:

Your Reference

ROOM NO:

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

TO:

Top Secret

Sir Edward Youde GCMG MBE

Secret

Confidential

Governor and Commander In Chief

HONG KONG

Restricted

Unclassified

PRIVACY MARKING

CAVEAT

In Confidence

Enclosures flag(s)

SUBJECT:

Copies to:

1. I have the honour

the honour to refer to the Hong Kong Letters

Patent 1986 and to address you on the subject of grants

and dispositions of land in Hong Kong.

Kong should

be

the

It

is

2. The Hong Kong Letters Patent 1986 dispense with the

requirements that grants and dispositions of land in Hong

in made

of The Queen. name

therefore necessary to adopt an alternative form for such

grants. I therefore instruct you that, consequent upon

the coming into force of such Letters Patent, grants and dispositions of any land in Hong Kong made and executed

by you

the principal Letters Patent be made anč

executed in the name of the Government of Hong Kong.

under

3. I should be grateful if you would acknowledge receipt

of this despatch.