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MY THIRD IPT: HONG KONG AGREEMENT:
PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES
& JAN 1986
NATIONALITY ORDER IN COUNCIL:
FOLLOWING IS REMAINDER OF TEXT OF OPENING SPEECH FOR HOUSE OF
COMMONS DEBATE.
BEGINS.
29.
INITIALLY THE PASSPORT IS LIKELY TO BE IN THE SAME FORMAT
AS IS ISSUED TO ALL BRITISH NATIONALS. BUT HON MEMBERS WILL BE
AWARE THAT THERE IS TO BE A CHANGE IN THE FORMAT OF BRITISH
PASSPORTS AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE DECISION TO GIVE A COMMON
FORMAT TO THE NATIONAL. PASSPORTS OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MEMBER
STATES AND OUR DECISION THAT THE UK PASSPORT SHOULD BE MACHINE-
READABLE. MY PREDECESSOR'S STATEMENT ON 24 JULY LAST YEAR
(OPEN SQUARE BRACKETS)
COLS 566-7 (CLOSE SQUARE BRACKETS)
AND THE DETAILED BACKGROUND NOTE WHICH ACCOMPANIED IT INDICATED
OUR INTENTION TO ISSUE TWO TYPES OF PASSPORT: ONE FOR THOSE WHO
ARE UK NATIONALS FOR EC PURPOSES AND THE OTHER FOR THOSE
INCLUDING BN(0)S WHO ARE NOT. THEY WILL BE IDENTICAL SAVE FOR
THE ABSENCE FROM THE LATTER OF EC REFERENCES ON THE COVER AND,
THE INSIDE, THE ABSENCE OF OTHER EC LANGUAGES, SAVE FOR FRENCH,
AND CERTAIN MODIFICATIONS TO THE PAGES WHICH THIS PERMITS. THE
BN(0) REVISED FORMAT PASSPORT, THEREFORE, LIKE THE PROPOSED
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