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with what they want
the right of abode there. In the
unlikely event however of any British national being forced
to leave Hong Kong and having nowhere to go, the Government
have made it clear, and I want to repeat again, that
we would expect the Government of the day to consider
sympathetically whether to admit such people on a case
by case basis in the light of the particular circumstances.
The Unofficial Members have also asked that some 400 or so former
servicemen in Hong Kong should be granted British citizenship
or alternatively that the Government should consider
sympathetically any application they might make for
registration as British citizens under section 4(5) of
the British Nationality Act 1981.
The Government fully recognise the contirbution these servicemen
made during the war and indeed the contirbution made by many
other people in Hong Kong during those years. But it does not
necessarily follow that we should mark this contribution by granting
/them