24 MAY '89 23:51
FROM CO1 TECH RADIO
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TRANSCRIPT K SELECT COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG 24 MAY 1989
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MR RENTON (CONT):
Dependancies could in some circumstances be recognised as
benefitting the UK itself".
This is not making it clear that there is no
automaticity about this. There is no question of
citizenship being regarded as part of the regular
emoluments of Crown Servants in the Dependencies, for
example.
I am afraid I do not have the Committee minutes of
the British Nationality Act in front of me in which our
But I understand colleague, Ar Raison, talked of this,
from a previous reading of the Committee minutes that he
did make these points very plain in the Committee of the
BHA dealing with the British Nationality Bill.
MR TEMPLE-MORRIS:
Well you give it with one hand as it were and take
it away with the other. But I just put the question once
more to you that who is better qualified really, is anyone more
better qualified than the Hong Kong Crown Servants in
terms of benefitting the UK, not least for what they are
doing at the moment?