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16 September 1993
Ms Annadele Bouch
Hong Kong Department
HKC 031/15
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Foreign & Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AR
2.UCI 1993
Dear Ms Bouch,
Subscription Television Copyright Protection
Thank you for your fax letter of 13 August 1993. After nearly three years of correspondence, we are dismayed and concerned by your latest view that HMG does not after have the necessary legal powers to make an Order under the Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 extending its provisions to Hong Kong.
Quite apart from the question of vires, given the urgency of the matter, we have decided that it would be more expedient for us to introduce a local Ordinance to provide protection to cable
in programme services
Hong Kong.
The latest advice contained in your letter is directly contradictory to legal advice which had previously been given by FCO/DTI legal advisers, and had formed the basis of legislative and administrative actions both HMG and HKG over the past few years. We do not agree with your latest advice and the Trade & Industry Branch (which has policy responsibility for copyright matters) will be taking the matter up with you separately.
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