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URITY CLASSIFICATION
CONFIDENTIAL
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DHJ Hilary Esq Under-Secretary Home Office
Lunar House
40 Wellesley Road CROYDON
CR9 2BY
In Confidence
Type 1 +
From
Mr Figg
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
DSR 11
NATIONALITY BILL
1. As you know, Donald Murray discussed the outstanding
questions of the number of citizenships and nomenclature
for them during his recent visit to Hong Kong. The
Governor maintained very strongly his view that there
should be a separate category of citizenship for residents
of Dependent Territories, and that the present title -
Citizen of the UK and Colonies should be retained.
However, he undertook to take some informal soundings
among the Unofficial Members of the Executive and
Legislative Councils.
2.
Sir Murray MacLehose has now informed us of the
results of these soundings. They can be summarised as
follows: firstly, he has confirmed that the Unofficial
Members all attach great weight to securing a separate
citizenship category for residents of dependencies.
They regard this as more important than the actual
nomenclature.
The titles considered to be acceptable are
(in order of preference):-
3.
1) Citizen of the UK and Colonies (ie no change)
2) Citizen of the Uk and Colonies (Hong Kong
3) British Citizen (Hong Kong)
4) British (Hong Kong) Citizen.
The Governor reported a strong preference for (1) or,
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