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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS Queensway Government Offices 66 Queensway
Hong Kong
8 September 1992
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Sir John Coles, KCMG,
Foreign & Commonwealth Office, up on Xx
London SW1 2AH,
UK.
Dear Sir John,
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for your letter dated 17 August 1992. will certainly do what I can to help sort out this long outstanding matter.
As far as I am aware, there has been no delegation of the Sovereign's prerogative power to give directions under
Sign Manual in charity cases in Hong Kong. I am not therefore able to give directions for the disposal of the bequest.
However, having looked at the terms of Sir S.K.'s bequest and the manner in which he attempted to give effect to his intentions, I doubt if a direction by me would in any event be entirely appropriate. the gift to charity was one to Her the United Kingdom and that the Secretary was merely that of an bequest was to be conveyed.
It appears to me that Majesty's Government in role of the then Chief agent through whom the
It seems to me that the proper course is for the to be transferred to the Treasury Solicitor for the directions of the Attorney General.
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Perhaps the Hong Kong Department could now approach Treasury Solicitor and ask for his confirmation that he prepared to give a receipt for the fund on behalf of the Attorney General with a view to giving directions under his delegated powers.
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(JF Mathews) Attorney General
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