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in public and, where any part of your report under these Our Letters Patent contains such classified documents or recites the contents of such documents and that Government has not consented to publication of that part, to furnish that part as a separate report with a recommendation whether or not it should be published;

      AND We appoint you the Honourable James McClelland to be the President of the said Commissioners:

      AND We further direct that, for the purpose of taking evidence, two Commissioners, one of whom shall be the President, shall be sufficient to constitute a quorum and may proceed with the inquiry under these Our Letters Patent:

      AND We declare that in these Our Letters Patent -

          (m) the expression "British nuclear tests" includes the tests associated with the British nuclear tests known as the minor trials and the experimental programme; and

          (n) the expression "test sites" means the sites of the British nuclear tests:

      AND We further direct you to make such recommendations arising out of your inquiry as you think appropriate, including recommendations regarding the future management and use of the test sites:

      AND We require you as expeditiously and on as informal a basis as possible to make your inquiry and, not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as We may be pleased to fix, to furnish to Our Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia a report of the results of your inquiry and your recommendations.

                     WITNESS His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Ninian Martin Stephen, a member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight of the Order of Australia, Knight Grand Cross of The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of The Royal Victorian Order, Knight Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Knight of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Force

      Dated this sixteenth day of July 1984.

Governor-General
By His Excellency's Command,

      Minister of State for Trade
      for and on behalf of the
      Prime Minister