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This is a scheme for key workers, not for a wealthy and
influential elite. It makes provisions for teachers, doctors,
nurses, engineers, computer programmers, accountants, business
managers, civil servants,
civil servants, policemen and the like, and the
reactions so far in Hong Kong lend no credence to the claim that
it is thought there as elitist or divisive. Rather, the scheme
is looked upon as one which will contribute to the stability and
prosperity of the Territory and therefore benefit the community
as a whole.
Mr Speaker, there are two other groups of people I ought to
mention who are not covered by the Bill but for whom I believe
some provision must be made. I am referring to the widows and
widowers of British citizens who were resident in Hong Kong and
I am prepared to offer an assurance that they will be allowed to
come here if they are still resident in Hong Kong and haven't the
citizenship of another country and haven't remarried.
They
would, of course, have been able to come here anyhow under the
In accadance with the recommendations of the Select Immigration Rules during the lifetimes of their spouses.
same assurance will also extend to
the widows
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widows of former
servicemen who served in defence of Hong Kong during the Second
World War under the Government of Hong Kong irrespective of the
Thought
husband's nationality. The Select Committee that there were 30
of them.
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