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CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS BR

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政司署

香港下亞畢

**** OUR REF :

來雨鐵號 YOUR REF:

Urgent By Fax

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GOVERNMent secreTARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

16 March 1993

Mr. Nigel Whitney

Hong Kong Department

Foreign & Commonwealth office

HKB 012/5

RECEN IN EGISTRY

Dear Nijel,

Composition of 1995 LegCo

Draft Royal Instructions 1993

Thank you for your

faxed message of 12 March

enclosing the letter from the

Legal Counsellor. Having

consulted the Attorney General's Chambers, we would like to offer the following comments:

Clause 1, heading

Agreed.

Clause 2(c)

The

enabling provisions for electoral laws to be made for the 1995 elections are already found in

Article 3(1) of the draft 1993 Letters Patent (amending Article VII (2) of the principal Letters Patent). Strictly speaking, therefore, there

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