PS/Mr Luce
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DATE: 18 March 1985
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CALL ON MR LUCE BY SIR ROGER LOBO, CBE, AT 5 PM ON TUESDAY, 19 MARCH
1. Sir Roger Lobo is the Senior Unofficial Member of the Hong Kong
Legislative Council. A personality note is attached.
He is visiting the UK for his investiture as a Knight Bachelor,
an honour he received in the Queen's New Year Honours List.
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This is intended to be a courtesy call. However, Sir Roger is a
British Dependent Territories Citizen of Portuguese extraction.
took a close personal interest in the question of statelessness.
may raise this issue with Mr Luce.
4.
If he does, Mr Luce will wish to explain that HMG has recognized
concern in Hong Kong among non-Chinese BDTCs about potential
statelessness in future generations, and has decided that second
generation children whose grandparents were BDTCs, and who would
otherwise be stateless, will be entitled to register as British
Overseas Citizens under a new provision of the BNA. This intention
by HMG was announced by Lady Young during the Committee Stage of the
Hong Kong Bill in the House of Lords on 14 March.
An extract from
Lady Young's speaking note for the debate is attached.
18 March 1985
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A C Galsworthy
Hong Kong Department
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