SECRET
Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AH
Mi Half 1918
In hudson
Av.
far
45
adunitô.
Para. I was to avoid
Telephone 01- 213 3794
1
Jacoby on the
Lijn about leur
sv.jp.
Was mas c
That my Addison
foto
Mr James Addison
Home Office B4 Division Apollo House
Wellesley Road
Croydon
Dean Jams
NATIONALITY: HONG KONG
Your reference
Our reference
Date 18 August 1982
HKK 340|1
сче
NO C48 1/4 Af298
4420/5
1. As you may know, Sir Edward Youde, the Governor of Hong Kong, accompanied by a group of council members, will be calling on the Prime Minister on 8 September. This will be formally confirmed in a letter about John Freeland's meeting with the Attorney General which should shortly reach Shirley Littler.
12.
Meanwhile Henry McQuade has told me he believes that the visitors will be particularly sensitive on the sovereignty and nationality issue. Among the questions they are likely to raise are:-
a) In the event of a change in sovereignty could the nationality status of BDTCs alive in Hong Kong at that time be altered by any means other than by amending legislation?
b)
Could BDTCs born before a transfer of sovereignty maintain their right to transmit their nationality to children born subsequent to such a transfer?
We shall need to include these points in the briefing.
И здесь
Chrosis implem
C J Howells
Nationality & Treaty Dept
cc:
Mr McQuade, HKGD Mr Cambridge, MVD
SECRET
+