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FOR GOVERNOR
1.
YOUR TELNO 863 OF 10 AUGUST: BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT
Griffiths met with Freeland on 13 August. Home
Office legal representative and official and FCO
officials were present.
2.
Freeland and H O legal rep agreed that Griffiths'
opinion, which introduced a different proposition to
that on which their previous legal advice was based,
was valid from the legal aspect. Though the citizenship
descriptions in passports had to match those in the
Nationality Act there was strictly no legal objection
to the inclusion in passports of a nationality status in
However, there were possible legal complication:
addition.
/eg,