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行政司署

香港下亞厘畢道

本署檔號 Our Ref.:

函檔號 Your Ref.:

Ms. Bridget Paris

Hong Kong Department

Foreign Commonwealth office

London SW1A 2AH

U.K.

By Fax

GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT LOWER ALBERT ROAD HONG KONG

1 December 1992

PA BP 9112

Dear Ms. Paris,

Elected LegCo President and CBF's Membership

Many

thanks

for your letter of 24 November enclosing the printed copy of the Letters Patent amendment and the amendments to the Royal Instructions. We are studying the amendments and your advice on the approach to RI XXIV.

I will revert with

our views as soon as practicable.

has

During

the course of our come to our notice that

internal deliberation, it in the

the Audit

Audit Ordinance (Cap. 122) and the Employees Retraining Ordinance (Cap. 423) there are references to "the Governor as the President of the Legislative Council". Amendments to the two Ordinances will be necessary, and we are already taking action to this end.

A copy of the draft drafting instructions, now being circulated among the relevant HKG departments, is enclosed for your information. Our present intention is to have the necessary amendments to Caps. 122 and 423 enacted by March 1993. Assuming that the amendments to the Letters Patent and the Royal Instructions are to go to the Privy Council either this month or at the latest January 1993, there could be a gap of one or two months between

Council's approval of the LP and RI amendments,

Privy and

the

time

when

the

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