CONFIDENTIAL
b)
that the Memorandum in effect provides an
entitlement to hold a BN (0) passport, and that it
should not therefore be necessary to be first
registered as a BN(0) in order to claim that
entitlement.
Hong Kong were eventually persuaded to accept a registration
ресаждай provision and were reminded that it would require a lengthy procedure to implement.
Scope for Amendment
6.
If pressed, agree to consider. [If essential, the term
"registration" could be dropped, and some such term as "recorded"
used instead. This would fit in with Hong Kong's own preference.
But it would need to be carefully worded so as to ensure that the
concept of acquisition of the status, as well as the passport, was
retained. It would also be an undesirable departure from the
accepted structure provided by the British Nationality Act 1981].