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APR.23 '86 15:12 GMT HO 2 LUNAR HOUSE
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LETTER
ADDRESSEE'S REFERENCE
TO
K Sital Esq JP
Vice President
Council of Hong Kong Indian
Associations
c/o TST
PO Box 95106
HONG KONG
(FULL POSTAL ADDRESS)
PA
Action Takan
ENCLOSURES
580
داد 11002892
pencilled comments put to Mr.Lyon. pa Not. 225/4
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COPIES TO BE SENT TO
Mr. Hill
Pl consider carefully.
건축
(FULL ADDRESSES, IF NECESSARY)
LETTER DRAFTED FOR SIGNATURE BY
Home Secretary
(NAME OF SIGNATURY)
Thank you for your letters of 17 February and 3 and 25 March about the Hong Kong Nationality Order in Council. It was very helpful for us to have these expressions of the Council's views.
The Government has very carefully considered all the points made in your letters. We recognised the concern they represented and we examined each of the aspects with great care to see whether it
But, would be right to move in the direction the Council suggested. as you will have seen from my statement in Parliament on 23 Apr. we had finally to conclude that it would not be right to do so. I know this will come as a great disappointment to the Council,
I wanted therefore to write to you myself to explain why we have
reached this conclusion.
and
As you know, the draft Order provides for a continued form of British nationality for those British Dependent Territories citizens who
would otherwise be stateless in 1997, and for their children and grandchildren. We believe that the most appropriate form of British nationality¶ts British Overseas citizenship, which properly reflects
Position
the nature of the-sosnsettent Hong Kong British Dependent Territorie
British citizens, both with the United Kingdom and with Hong Kong. citizenship,--Britist: Dependent Territonien-citizenship, cannot
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