ME2 AHG
CONFIDENTIAL
HONG KONG: BRITISH NATIONALS (OVERSEAS):
FACILITATING TRAVEL TO THIRD COUNTRIES
DRAFT NOTE TO MISSIONS IN LONDON
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs presents his compliments to their Excellencies and Messieurs the Heads of Diplomatic Missions
in London and has the honour to inform them that a Hong Kong Nationality Order in Council made under
under the Hong Kong Act
1985 will come into operation on 1 July 1987.
British
July
Declaration
on
the
Majesty's
of question
Government and the
of China.
Under
The Hong Kong Act 1985 made provision for the ending of
and Sovereignty
jurisdiction over Hong Kong
in 1997,
accordance with the terms of
the
made Hong Kong
Government of the People's
the terms of
on
1
Joint
by
Her
the
Joint
on
July
Republic Declaration, Hong Kong will become a Special Administrative
1 of Region (SAR)
the People's Republic of China 1997. Paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the Hong Kong Act
to the conferred power to give effect by Order in Council nationality provisions of the United Kingdom Memorandum associated with the Joint Declaration.
are
This
The main provisions of the Order in Council
summarised in the enclosed explanatory memorandum. summary is provided for the information and convenience of Missions and of their domestic authorities concerned.
For a
full and authoritative statement of the position it will be to refer to the terms of the Order itself.
necessary
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