J M Lyon
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Mr Acton
Mr Yates
Mr Phillips
Mr Pakenham-Walst
Mr Holmes
Mr Fries
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Mr Hyde
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Mr Storr
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Mr Fittall
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INTRODUCTION
1.
This submission, for the length of which I
apologise, seeks Ministers approval to the attached
draft White Paper and Order in Council to implement
the nationality provisions of the Hong Kong Act 1985.
2.
Specifically, the submission seeks Ministers'
agreement;
a)
that, in the unique circumstances
of Hong Kong, the Order should confer on
BDTCs by virtue of connection with Hong
Kong an entitlement to BN (0) passports
b)
to reject a proposal by Sir S Y Chung,
a member of EXCO, for amending the BNA 1981
SO as to provide children born after 1997 of
BN(0)s with a transmissible form of British
nationality
c)
to circulate the White Paper and
Order in Council as drafted.
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