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DATE: 28 April 1987
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HONG KONG: PUBLIC ORDER (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE
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The latest press summaries from Hong Kong suggest that the
anxiety about this ordinance seems to be dying down. There has been
good coverage of Mr Renton's meetings with the Hong Kong Journalists Association and Foreign Correspondents Club
especially
his assurance that there had been no Chinese pressure on us about
the matter and the Hong Kong media themselves seem to have
realised that it would be a dangerous precedent for HMG to disallow
the legislation.
2.
In a further effort to reassure public opinion, the HKG plan
and trusted to show to a small group of Hong Kong media representatives, in draft, the guidelines they have prepared for use by the prosecution
section of the Attorney-General's chambers in interpreting the new
Ordinance, and in advising the Attorney-General whether or not to
prosecute in particular cases. We have already been consulted about
the draft and have suggested some changes. The idea is that any
valid points made by the media representatives will also be taken
into account, and the guidelines will then be made generally
available to the media. A copy of the draft as it now stands is
attached.
3.
This seems to me a good and imaginative idea of the HKG.
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