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1. Thank you for your minute of 16 June. I remain in contact with 24, Mr Cogbill (Home Office) in order to keep abreast of their thinking.
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Although they have a fairly firm idea of what their final view will be, the Home Office are not yet in a position to pronounce on the matter. The reasons for this are that:
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the question is bound up with the study of how paragraph 5 of the (Statement of Changes in the) Immigration Rules is to be amended in the light of the British Nationality Act (copy attached). This paragraph is one of the principal parts of the Rules, upon which the whole structure of the Rules rests. Ministers are reluctant to effect substantive changes to paragraph 5 and will wish to keep as much as possible to the technical level.
(b)) the implications for the other dependent territories
continue to figure largely in HO thinking on the subject.
(c) the resulting new version of paragraph 5 of the Immigration Rules will come under very close scrutiny by all those concerned with immigration, and the Home Office want to get it right first time. They are therefore reluctant to be more hurried than present time constraints demand over their consideration of the question.
Mr Cogbill will explore with Mr Kuo how Hong Kong see the matter. He expects to find it helpful to be able to go over the ground with him.
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23 June 1982
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I am sorry this was held up; I have not yet heard Mr Cogbill's account of his talk with Mr Kuo, but in my absence Mr Partridge saw the latter and had a useful talk (it ranged over matters other than the above).
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