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DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE SUB-COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG
HONG KONG ASSURANCES: LEGISLATION
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IN REGISTRY 1 MAY 1990
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Motion Taken.
Memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Home Department
1.
Since the Foreign Secretary's announcement on 20 December
1989 about our proposals for granting citizenship to 50,000 key
Hong Kong personnel, I have written to colleagues on 11 and 31
January giving details of the likely shape of the Bill and the
further work which is being done by our own and HKG officials.
Provisional instructions to Parliamentary Counsel have been
issued and it remains the intention to introduce the Bill in the
week beginning 2 April. Given the amount of work which remains
to be done before the Bill is ready, however, I do not believe that it will be feasible to attempt to secure a second reading by Easter.
2.
The purpose of this memorandum is to:
a) seek colleagues' endorsement of the broad structure of
the selection scheme as it currently stands;
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