Spoke will Ar Savage
who with review the
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FROM:
Miss S Brooks
Legal Counsellor
po pr 2875.
DATE:
27 May 1992
pa.
CC:
Mr Savage, OED
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Mr Woodrow HKD
PRIVATE TREATY GRANT (PTG): COLVIN HOUSE SITE
1.
I refer to your minute of today's date. I understand that Mr Jarvis has gone back to the Department of Buildings and Lands, after an agreement had been reached on the PTG,to suggest that my amendment for special condition 11c) should be added. I understand from your minute that OED are unhappy that Mr Jarvis should have raised this matter and that they are of the opinion that the amendments already set out in Mr Hughes's letter meet our requirement.
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2.
Whether or not my suggested amendment should be included in the PTG depends on the policy aim. If it is intended, as I believe to be the case, that any British Council space from its 6,500 sq metre allocation which is excess to its requirements should be used for the purposes of the British Consulate-General or any ancilliary accommodation required for the purposes of the Consulate-General, my suggested amendment is required. two amendments which have been agreed and which are set out in Mr Hughes's letter do not meet this point. (The first amendment which Mr Hughes records is the deletion of '(as to what constitutes ancilliary accommodation, the decision of the Director shall be final)'. It merely removes the discretion of the Director to decide what is ancilliary accommodation for the purposes of the Consulate-General. The second amendment which substitutes 'up to' in place of
'not more than' and removes the words 'at his sole discretion' makes little difference to the sense of the sentence; the Director must still approve whatever additional area is to be used by the British Council). Neither amendment enables spare British Council space to be used for the Consulate-General or ancilliary accommodation.
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