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5 December 1984.
F Burrows Esq CMG
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2. M. Powell) to see
My. Houve
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Jean Fred.
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As I mentioned on the telephone, we are in general content with the nationality provisions in the revised draft of the Bill, subject to adjustment of the last three lines of paragraph 2(2) of the Schedule to protect the BDTC with dual connections which I believe
you are pursuing.
2. I have assumed that the draftsman is satisfied that there is
no need to refer expressly in the Bill to the fact that the
Nationality Order-in-Council will itself spell out what the
relevant connections with Hong Kong are to be. I suppose it is conceivable that someone may try to assert that the Order should not seek to limit the meaning of "a connection with Hong Kong" but perhaps we can rely on "supplementary" in paragraph 2(3).
3.
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What about extent to Northern Ireland, etc see, for instance, section 5(4) and (5) of the British Nationality
(Falkland Islands) Act 1983 and section 53(4)-(6) of 1981?
June
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J Pakenham-Walsh
Legal Advisers Branch
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