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Mr Fifoot, Legal Advisers
Mr Grainger, Legal Advisers
Parliamentary Unit
Sherrmacok
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HONG KONG AGREEMENT: ORDER IN COUNCIL
PROBLEM
1.
Whether to agree that the Home
Secretary should guide
the
nationality
Order in Council arising from the Hong Kong
through Parliament.
Act
RECOMMENDATION
2.
I recommend that the Secretary of State agree.
BACKGROUND AND ARGUMENT
3.
This was
and
despite the
dealt with
FCO Ministers took responsibility for the Hong Kong Bill
guided it through both Houses of Parliament.
fact that paragraph 3 of the Schedule to the Act
nationality matters.
Home Office officials provided
briefing on this section and Home Office Ministers offered support.
4.
necessary
The Order in Council arising from paragraph 3 3 to the Schedule
deals exclusively with nationality measures and amends the BNA 1981.
Drafting of it and discussion of the drafts with Hong Kong are well
under way.
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