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b)
would suspect anything that hinted at a separate Hong
Kong citizenship. We should therefore prefer not to
pursue this line. There may also be other arguments
against separate citizenships for each dependency
being created in this way; for example, it is almost
certainly impossible for the Falkland Islands.
[British Subject]: Citizen of the British Dependent
Territories.
Comment. As was explained in telno 1 (Personal) to
Anguilla of 4 January, if we are to avoid creating
separate citizenships for each dependency there must
be a single collective title in the Act to describe
the status of the belongers of all dependencies. The
only way in which we could try to satisfy the desire
of several Governors for the inclusion of the name of
the dependency in some way was by introducing a slight
variation of the collective statutory title that
could be used in passports and for other administrative
purposes. It is for this reason that we listed
various possible collective titles in paragraph 2 of
telno 1 to Anguilla. This is still our view. No
alternative titles have been suggested and we there-
fore consider that one of these titles is essential for
the purpose of the statute.
"[British Subject] Citizen of the British Dependent
Territories". The administrative variants which
Our preference is for
might be used in passports, etc, and which are
probably more important to citizens than the
statutory collective title, are considered in (c) and
(d) below.
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/c)