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21 October 1993

BY FAX

Miss Vivian Sum

Constitutional Affairs Branch

Hong Kong

Foreign & Commonwealth

Office

London SWIA 2AH

Telephone: 071-270 265 1

ни oin/s 012/5

2.U. 1993

Deer Vivim,

AMENDMENTS TO THE LETTERS PATENT AND ROYAL INSTRUCTIONS

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Thank you for your fax of 20 October. I will check with the Privy Council about the point raised in paragraph 5 of Mr Collins' note.

2. I am afraid I cannot resist the temptation of suggesting that CAB might like to buy Mr Collins a thesaurus for Christmas. The comment in paragraph 4 of his minute that he would not regard the FCO view as necessarily an inexorable revelation of eternal verity is an interesting way of saying that the FCo is not always correct. Do all lawyers write like

this?

You s

Ric

Nijel

NC G Whitney

Hong Kong Department

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