TNAG-1687-FCO40-2337-Hong-Kong-legislation-regarding-the-control-of-publications--1987 — Page 203

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anse Net Diaallowed'

It has been suggested, following a piece in one of the

Sunday newspapers (The Standard) that the Control of Publications

Ordinenos was never approved in London when it was enacted in 1951

and that therefore it has never bem valid Law at all.

2.

This point is based on a misapprehension of the relevant

provision of the Royal Instructions. From a quick search carried out

in the contemporary papers, it does appear that no notice of non-

disallowance was ever published in the Government Gazette. But that

faat - if it be a fact - does not affect the validity of the Ordinasõe.

The relevant Article of the Letter Patent - Article VIII

provides that the Queen, through the Secretary of State

disallow any enactment,

simply

s may

This anaatment was never divaijowed and 14

is therefore a fully valid statute.

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