APR.23 '86 15:12 GMT HO 2 LUNAR HOUSE
DRA LETTER
ADDRESSEE'S REFERENCE
TO
K Sital Esq JP
Vice President
Council of Hong Kong Indian
Associations
c/o TST
ENCLOSURES
FILE NUMBER N11/00 $8,92
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LETTER DRAFTED FOR SIGNATURE BY
Home Secretary
(NAME OF SIGNATORY)
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 would be right to move in the direction the Council suggested. But, 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
whic will reficer ver
r3d you can give 1997
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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 nationality4s British Overseas citizenship, which properly reflects
Posti the natu of the-eARK.
"Hong Kong British Dependent Territori.
With
British citizens, both with the Urribed Kingdom and Hong Kong. citizenship, itke Britist: Dependent Territories-citizenship, cannot
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