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The British Council
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Promoting cultural, educational and technical co-operation between Britain and other countries
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(a) check whether this arrangement wouldbe free of tax in the VK (b) check what art of management Here the British Carnal his in mind. If the answer to (a) is no, he would be jasparo to me this in K2K.
Dear Peter
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SIR S K TANG DONATIAN
FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS
It has taken a little while for this matter to be looked at by our legal and financial people as well as by the Geographical Division. It proved to be somewhat less straight forward than might at first have appear. However we seem now to have reached an internal concensus on what might best be arranged.
We propose the following:
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FCO gives the £lm to the Council for use as a conditional donation. This is the course required by our Financial regulations.
Given the political position in Hong Kong and the fact that the payments from the fund are most likely to be in sterling in the UK, the sum should be remitted to the UK.
The British Council then invests the conditional donation under a trust fund arrangement in the UK.
The conditions of the donation would be that it could only be used on scholarships for Hong Kong and possibly Cancer Research Institute.
The British Council would then nominate its Representative Hong Kong as Fund Manager and he could administer the fund in collaboration with the Hong Kong Government and FCO on whatever cooperative basis was thought appropriate and utilising a local management advisory group.
This would appear to meet most, if not all, of the points raised originally and would provide a workable basis for the administration of the scheme for which we would expect to derive a management charge at an appropriate rate to be agreed.
Yours sincerely
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Dr Gareth Howell
fr Controller
Americas, Pacific and
East Asia Division
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