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FUTURE OF HONG KONG RECORDS
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Your Reference
GRC 2/3/1
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Mr Chalmers PRO
Mr Footman HKD
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I have now had an opportunity to discuss your
letter of 12 April at length with Duncan Chalmers.
In Confidence
What follows has been agreed between us.
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Status of the records under the UK Public Records Acts
2. We do not see any conflict in the legal advice
\ offered to both governments. Those records, the
This draft replies to W70% originals, which will stay in Hong Kong are not, nor
a number of ahiler
questions from HK wont
transfer of Mchina. It
is mainly technical
in nature, although it dealy has implicaties
In Messe if information in the UK. I think it A fine as - it
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it creates problems for UK they with let us know!
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will be, public records for the purposes of UK
legislation. The microfiche sent to London for
administrative purposes and later research use will
be public records. There is, in our view, no need for
a determination by the Lord Chancellor. Such
determinations are normally concerned with the records
of quasi-governmental bodies - for example the various
Research Councils - not with the records of government
itself at home or overseas. By avoiding the
determination process we shall also avoid the publicity
which concerns you, though we think the risk in any
case slight.
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