Mr Jones
HKK 3401 RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51
22 OCT 1979
DESK OFFICER
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INDEX
PA
Мо
AW 23/
REGISTRY Agripa Taken
24
125
18
Nationality & Treaty Department
NATIONALITY BILL: TRANSMISSION OF CITIZENSHIP TO CHILDREN
BORN OVERSEAS
22
per 125
1. Please see the comments on the drafts attached to your minute of 17 October in Mr Quantrill's minute below. I agree with them. In particular, I think it important that we should make clear to the Home Office how the FCO would expect "Crown Servants" to be defined.
2.
I have two more general comments. The first (perhaps easier said than done) is that the submission should be shortened considerably; there is otherwise a danger that Ministers will not read it. The second is that it should cover a draft letter to the Home Office I assume that such
a letter will be needed in any case if Ministers approve your proposed recommendation.
130
R JT McLaren
22 October 1979
Hong Kong and General Deparrment
CC
other Dependent Territory Departments (WIAD, SPD, SED, SAmD, M&CD)
M&VD
Mr Stratton
Mr Murray
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