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io hoped that with hio assistance reliable Arabic toxto of
drafto to bo submitted to tho Rulers concornod can now bo
moro easily and quickly produced.
5. Draft Queen’s Regulations submitted by you aro examined
here as quickly os possible but where they require detailed

amondmont, or concorn technical matters necessitating
consultation with other Government Departments, some delays
aro of course inevitable. Delay between the issue of
legislation by the Ruler and its application by Queen’s

Regulation to persons subject to Her Majesty’s jurisdiction
can only bo reduced to a minimum if, firstly, the Ruler
submits his draft legislation for approval boforo enacting
it, and oecondly, if the Quoenb Regulation applying it or
containing parallel provisions is drafted and submitted to

the Foreign Office concurrently with the Ruler’s low. Ttje
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time log could bo further reduced if it could bo arranged
that the Ruler *o low and our own Queens Regulation .would, bo
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isouod together on or about a date previously agrood.

6. In the particular cuso of the Bahrain transfer of
Immovable Proporty Regulation to which Your Excellency’s
despatch No. 96 rofers, I note that tho Ruler’s l'^w was
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onactad on the 20th of July and that the Draft Queen’s
Regulation was not submitted until the 15th of September.

A revised draft of tho Queen’s Regulation has since been
prepared here and sent to you for your approval* •
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7. As Mr. Wall indicatoo in the interesting report on the
administration of justice in Bahrain forwarded under cover of

/your