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MEMBERS OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
立法局員
3 January 1986
The White Paper on the Draft Hong Kong
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(British Nationality) Order 1986
you on
behalf
to am writing
of all the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council to express their deep concern on
on issues raised in this White Paper. That concern is shared by all Unofficial Members, both the .
and the Members
and 24 elected Members, 22 appointed accurately reflects, I believe, the views of the community at large.
on
You may already have received reports about the adjournment debate on the White Paper on the Draft Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986, which took place in
last. on the 4th December the Legislative Council
to impress you is
you this attach to Members deep sense of unease disappointment which they and many other people have about the measures it proposes.
purpose importance legislation
in writing
which and
to LegCo the
My
the draft
and
Their worries have focussed on (i) the acceptability in countries around the world of yet another unproven type of British passport, and (ii) the proposal leave stranded in Hong Kong nearly 10,000 people of
to
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