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to what extent the issue of the sovereignty of
the Falklands influenced either the content or
the timing of the BNA 1981.
(ii) whether the settlement of citizenship provisions
for Hong Kong, the colony which presented the
most serious problems, was calculated to
persuade the Falkland Islanders to accept equal
terms before HMG entered discussions with the
(ili)
Argentines on sovereignty.
to what extent (a) the wishes of the Falklanders
and
(b) the sensitivities of the
Argentines
were taken into account in framing the new
nationality legislation.
Long debate on the new legislation
3 The need for new nationality legislation had been
debated for a number of years. The Conservata
Government reviewed the issues as early as 1970, and
the Labour Party proposed a new Bill in their 1974
manifesto. In April 1977 the Labour Government
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