TNAG-1705-FCO40-2377-Counterfeiting-and-forgery-provisions-in-Hong-Kong-1987 — Page 72

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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Mr Raymond H C Wong

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Your reference

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2 NOV 1987

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PA

20 November 1987

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Dear hur way

REVIEW OF LONG-TERM PRISON SENTENCES

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In response to your Fax of 6 November, I enclose copies of papers which may be of help to you.

1.

Paragraph 4 of Circular 577/60 conveyed a request (not an instruction) to recipients of the Circular to inform HMG of any changes (of legislation) made as a result of the recommendations contained in the accompanying memorandum.

2.

3.

I do not

I enclose a copy of a Hong Kong Savingram, no 2524 dated 29 November 1960, which acknowledges receipt of Circular 577/60 and says, in paragraph 2, that "it is proposed to embody these recommended changes in legislation". know whether any such legislation was ever enacted.

4.

I am still trying to discover whether there is a uniform system of periodic reviews of long-term prison sentences in all British Dependent Territories, but in view of the urgency of your request I am sending this interim reply. I will send you further information by telegram as soon as I can.

CC:

Murs Alexandra Au then, wind

Yours surely

Peter Morris

P J Morris

Hong Kong Department

Aus S.F. Muomplet, Research dept.

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