CODE 18-77
SS 8/78
CONFIDENTIAL
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неазно HKK 340/1. 340/1
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Mr Quantrill HKGD
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Mr Holmes WIAD
Mr Perceval
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Mr Duggan
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Mr Gordon
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Mr Pettit SPD
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NEW NATIONALITY LAW: COLONIAL CITIZENSHIP
1.
Following discussion Home Office officials have agreed to recommend to Ministers that there should be 3 categories of citizenship in the new law so as to provide for a separate category for colonial belongers. No conclusion has however been reached between us on what title to recommend for the colonial category. Attached is a draft paper which the Home Office have sent to us for comments which sets out their view. We would not agree with some of the argumentation in the paper; for example, we think it underestimates the importance of their status as opposed to the style of their passport and we think it over-states the need to separate the name of the colony to which a person belongs from the collective name for colonial belongers when it is shown in a passport. We shall take up these points with the Home Office at the appropriate time: the purpose of this minute is to seek your agreement to the attached draft telegram asking Governors for their views. The telegram is, I believe, self-explanatory but I should be glad to enlarge on it by telephone if necessary.
21 December 1979
CONFIDENTIAL
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