of the Gibraltar Adoption Ordinance which provides all
the normal safeguards. We now think that the omission
of adopted minors could not be defended without
casting aspersions on the probity of the Gibraltar
courts, and might also be held to conflict with the
1967 European Convention on the Adoption of Children
which required States to facilitate the acquisition
by an adopted child of the nationality of his
adoptive parent(s).
(e) Our EC partners are now likely to take a fairly
relaxed view about additional categories which are
minor in terms of numbers than they did in 1972
when they shared with us some concern about an influx
of Commonwealth immigrants.
8. I therefore recommend approval of the attached
revised Declaration and supplementary explanatory
document for submission to the Scrutiny Committees and
presentation in EC.
9. This submission has been cleared with ECD(I), SED
HKGD, FID, MVD, Chief Passport Officer and the Legal
Advisers to NTD and ECD(I) and is put forward with the
concurrence of Home Office officials and Legal Advisers.