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would retain a form
of
British
generation which would not be
nationality for one
transmissible to their
children. The Hong Kong Act enables us to legislate
to implement this Memorandum
and to create a new
British National
known
as
nationality status
(Overseas) through an Order in Council. This Order in
Council has now been drafted and will be introduced to
Parliament by the Home Secretary in early December.
We have agreed in the face of Parliamentary pressure
that the Order should first be debated with
with "green
edges", withdrawn to take account of comments
way
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the effect
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draft
and statum ini under Verms of
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reintroduced for debate in the usual
affirmative resolution procedures. I attach a
of the White Paper introducing the Order in Council.
This makes the issue seem Lenity
Lemitry complicated.
British
11. Related to the introduction of the new status we
will need to provide for the issue of new National (Overseas) passports from 1987.
agree with the Chinese form of words
a
how many? for whom? will Key have in these passports that will indicate
home of
rodince here?
Pros sometly nor.
We need to
to be inserted
Who would with ķ
Come Leve
that the holder but won't beath to?
has the right of abode in Hong Kong and after 1997 in
the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
12. No is sue i s more sensitive
issue of
nationality.
in Hong Kong than the
HMG
i s
of the BNA 1981.
How many of Ker suspicision, mostly arising out
an the issued lih ик
regarded with deep
It
is too much to hope that we shall redeem ourselves,
but we need to tread carefully.
- Garrison
Passports- how much
will Hong
jectors this cause?
n ew
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the When wili
13. The OD (K) commitee has agreed to
to a proposal from
Hong Kong that the planned construction of a barracks at Kohima should not go ahead, and that
garrison should be reduced from five to four battalions in 1987. We are studying with the MOD the
longer term future of the garrison and whether
should be partially replaced before 1997 by an
internal defence force or a strengthened police force. This issue is potentially sensitive in Hong Kong.
to be
it made
puthic?
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