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BN(O) PASSPORT FEES
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the Treasury
We have been trying to reach agreement with
the financial arrangements connected with the issue of
BN (O) passports since last August. Finance Departmewn t are
in the lead.
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In August last year Hong Kong suggested that they bear costs of producing and issuing passports to BN(O) s and
the balance between this and the fee
fee to be charged
le.r the Consular Fees Order (currently £15). This is
ilar
the arrangement for the
the issue of BDTC passports
OW although Hong Kong set their own fee for the se
fees passport
will be set under the
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passports.
BN (0)
Consul
ular Fees Order because they will be issued in the name
of the Secretary of State and also to provide continuity
after 1997.
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3.
A problem
arose, however, when Finance Department
pointed out that from 1 April 1986 all Consular Fees must be
surrendered to the Exchequer as Consolidated Fund Extra
Receipts (CFERS). Finance Department discussed this with
the Treasury who replied in September last year that Hong
Kong could retain their administrative costs but that the
"profit" must be surrendered as CFERS. (The cost to Hong
Kong
issuing passports i s forty percent of the fee
charged.
This means that
sterling terms, the profit
of
in
accruing to the Hong Kong Government would be £7 per BN(O)
Their current profit on a BD TC passport, for
passport.
which they charge £20, is £12.)
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