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10. Although the 1962 Act is past history, it has
coloured attitudes towards the present proposals.
Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative
Councils are opposed to the proposals in the Green Paper.
They see a two-tier system of citizenship as discrimina-
tory; they regard it as a public confirmation that
Hong Kong British subjects do not have the rights of
British citizens. They may accept that this is already
the case in practice; but they do not wish it to be
underlined by legislation.
11.
Sir Yuet-keung Kan. and Sir Sze-yuen Chung made
these points when they called on the Minister of State,
Lord Goronwy-Roberts, on the 8th of June 1977. They
presented to him a memorandum containing the views of
Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative
Councils.
Following a letter from the Minister of
State on the 4th of August 1977 in which he said that
he would be interested in further views from Hong Kong
on this subject, the Unofficial Members prepared a
further memorandum. I am enclosing both memoranda with
this despatch.
12.
You will see from the memorandum of the 16th of
January 1978 that Unofficial Members have asked the
Government to enter into negotiations with Her Majesty's
Government to establish criteria for granting a right
of entry into the United Kingdom to Hong Kong British
subjects. However the Hong Kong Government's view is
that it is impracticable to expect that Hong Kong's
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