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Seuran a Stato 58
M. Gay
Thank you
Private Secretary
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FROM: A C Galsworthy
DATE:
9 January 1986
cc: PS/Lady Young
PS/Mr Renton
Sir W Harding 2. Wilsm or,
HONG KONG NATIONALITY ORDER IN COUNCIL: LETTER FROM
MISS LYDIA DUNN
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pst copy also +, DS/PUS
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1.
ou r
comments
on
MP s on the Hong Kong
to be debated in the
The Secretary of State asked for
Miss Dunn's letter of 3 January to all
Nationality Order in Council, which i s
House of Commons on 16 January.
2.
The letter is written in Miss Dunn's capacity as senior
Unofficial on LegCo. In it she takes up the four major
requests made in the LegCo debate on 4 December:
(a)
that HMG should do what it can to ensure that the BN(0)
passport is fully acceptable to third countries;
(b)
(~)
(d)
3.
fide
that an endorsement should be entered in BN (O) passports
to allow unobstructed entry to the UK by
by bona
travellers;
that
non-Chinese BDTC should be granted full British Citizenship rather than BN (O)/ BOC status.
as
that former servicemen who fought in British forces during the Second World War should be registered British citizens under Section 4 of the BNA, 1981.
The letter now has the unanimous support of LegCo, EXCO
and the Hong Kong Government. Miss Dunn spoke on her letter in
strong terms in LegCo on 8 January, saying that failure to meet
requests would add to the profound resentment felt by
these
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