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MINIMAL HKGD
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LEGAL ADVISERS
1.
That basis
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Copies to:-
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, Mēs righ was valid from the legal aspect.
pect. Though the citizenship
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of codicensing
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"descriptions in passports had to match those in the
Nationality Act there was strictly no legal objection
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to the inclusion in passports of a nationality status in
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However, there were possible legal complications
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