DLC DO 85 14:31 TIB(OOL) HK GUVI
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Adjournment Debate on the White
Paper on the Draft Hong Kong
(British Nationality) Order 1986
Speech by the Attorney General
on 4 December 1985
Sir,
By their speeches on the White Paper on the
draft Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order of 1986,
my honourable friends have raised in the course of
this debate a number of important issues. These
include the need to make the new BN (0) passport as
effective a travel document as the existing BDTC
passport in providing access to third countries
without the need for a visa; the need to make sure
that the BN (0) passport enjoys the confidence of immigration officials of third countries because it
has an adequate right of abode endorsement; for Her Majesty's Government to do its utmost to try and ensure that the BN (0) passport is widely
the need
acceptable internationally and possibly, to this end,
include in the passport freedom of entry to the
United Kingdom; the need to give sympathetic