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Section X (Vietnamese Boat People)
9.
(a)
(b)
(0)
(d)
Para 43. Add after
after the first
first sentence
sentence "Such people were automatically granted refugee status without having to demonstrate a well founded fear of persecution."
Para 44. Add at the end of the second sentence "and 99% are ethnic Vietnamese." Add at the end "These developments have caused considerable concern among the local population".
Para 45, first sentence. Delete "to" after "led".
Para 45. Add after the third sentence "In order to be granted refugee status new arrivals must he able to present a case of a well founded fear of persecution". To change "a refugee camp" to
camp" "refugee camps".
Section XI
10.
Please see Annex A on revised paragraphs 49 to 52.
Section XII
11.
(a)
Para 53. Change "BDTSc" to "BDTCs".
(b)
Para 54, third sentence. Reword : "......only they obtain a BN(0) passport before the end of 1997."
if
(c)
Para 55, first sentence. Add "compatriots" after "Hong Kong Chinese."
(d)
Para 55, second sentence. BDTCS" before
"who
(e)
(f)
(g)
documents......."
Add "previously called hold British travel
Para 56, second sentence. Reword: "The position of BDTCS......".
Please see Annex B on revised paragraph 57.
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Para 5 8
Should this be a separate section XIII ? Reword the first sentence "IE ......had been held a large part of Hong Kong would have to be returned to China in 1997 without any safeguards."
Annex I
12.
Section II. Change title to "The Legal System". Insert "legal system and" betwen "own" and "system" in first sentence. Insert "laws preciously in force in Hong
in Hong Kong (including the" between "the" and "common law". after common law.
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