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FROM:
A C GALSWORTHY,
DATE: 30 JANUARY 1985
Cc:
HONG KONG BILL: NEW NATIONALITY TITLE
Sir W Harding
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HKD
Mr Burrows, Legal Advisers
Mr Partridge, NTD
Parliamentary Unit
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PROBLEM
1.
To decide whether to insert the new nationality title in the
Schedule to the Hong Kong Bill at the committee stage in the House
of Commons.
RECOMMENDATION
2. I recommend that Parliamentary Counsel be asked to put down a
Government amendment in the Secretary of State's name introducing the title "British National (Overseas)" into paragraph 2(1)(b) of
the Schedule. I submit a draft letter to the Chief Whip's Office.
The Department's Legal Counsellor and Home Office officials concur.
BACKGROUND AND ARGUMENT
3.
The Hong Kong Bill in its present form refers simply to "a
form of British nationality" which would be acquired by BDTCs by virtue of a connection with Hong Kong. In the debate on the Second
Reading of the Bill the Secretary of State was able to announce the
new title after it had been agreed by EXCO and the Chinese
Government. Sir Peter Blaker expressed the opinion in the debate
that any amendment incorporating the title should be introduced in
the Commons and not in the House of Lords as the Secretary of State had suggested in his speech.
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