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were

4. If we

for tabling able to

to have the Scheme ready immediately after Royal Assent, it, too, could in principle be approved and by the Summer break. This would imply that we were able, in collaboration with HKG, to continue work on the Scheme (of which only an informal description will have been tabled along with the Bill) during the Bill's passage. But while early Assent to the Scheme would be a valuable prize, both for the Government and Hong Kong, in practice it seems almost inevitable that the Scheme will not be approved until after the Summer

recess.

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сде

MRS E J GRIMSEY