CONFIDENTIAL
HONG KONG NATIONALITY WHITE PAPER
2.
IDENTIFICATION OF PERSONS AFFECTED
Argument
1.
The full list of circumstances bringing people within the
Order set out in Annex 2 of the White Paper should be
incorporated in the Order itself.
2.
Alternatively, it would be far simpler to define those
having a connection with Hong Kong as "Hong Kong Belongers" as
defined in Hong Kong's own Immigration Ordinance.
Government Proposals
3.
Article 2 of the draft Order summarises suit
all
the circumstances of people who will be affected by the Order.
Annex 2 of the White Paper describes people's possible
circumstances in more detail.
Line to Take
ANNEX 2 TO THE WHITE PAPER
4.
Article 2 as drafted is comprehensive and comparatively
ome straightforward. Further details is not necessary. In any event
people may not understand all the references to legislation in
Annex 2 since they may not know under precisely what provision
of the British Nationality Acts they have acquired their British
Dependent Territories citizenship. But they will probably know
whether they were, for example, descended from a person registered
in Hong Kong or not.
Annex 2, however, is intended to help people who wanted to go into it a bit more deeply and identify their own particular
circumstances.. We hope it is all-embracing, but of course it may
not be so.
5.