United Kingdom provided that these are not endorsed as
being issued on behalf of some other territory; and persons born, naturalised or registered as British subjects in the United Kingdom. No objection is seen
to this definition on which it is difficult to improve. It may be necessary to modify it in the light of experience but any definition is bound to give rise
to anomalies in individual cases.
(b) The criteria to be applied to Commonwealth citizens
seeking entry into Hong Kong for employment purposes will be the same as for aliens seeking entry for the same purpose (paragraph 8 of memorandum).
Reasons for Introducing the Scheme
6. The Executive Council memorandum makes it clear that the main reason for introducing the scheme is the need to control the present influx of unskilled Pakistanis and Indians. Paragraph 4 of the memorandum sets out the political
considerations which have led up to the decision to introduce the scheme. However, there are other reasons not mentioned in the memorandum. Hong Kong is already one of the most
Hong Kong is
densely populated (if not the most densely populated)
territories in the world with an average population density of 10,000 per square mile which rises to as much as 5,000 per acre in certain urban areas. Over the past twenty years Hong Kong has had to cope with a very large influx of refugees from mainland China who with their dependants now form approximately one-third of the Colony's total population of four million persons. Entry of Chinese from the mainland is now controlled but quite significant numbers continue to enter the Colony illegally. This large Chinese influx has involved (and is still involving) the Government in massive expenditure on the necessary social amenities such as education (on which the Colony already spends nearly 20% of its annual budget), medical and health services, water supplies and more especially on resettlement and low cost housing schemes. As a result of
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