3.
DSR 11C (Revised 5/87)
As you will be aware, there is a further small group
of people, widows of (Hong Kong) ex-servicemen, for whom
In April 1986,
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are being pressed to make concessions.
as Home Secretary, I announced that, as a special
concession, HMG would apply Section 4 (5) of the BNA to
270 ex-servicemen, thereby enabling them to register as
But the concession did not apply to
British citizens.
wives and widows.
OMELCO have subsequently pressed Lord
Glenarthur to apply the concession to wives and widows.
The present number is 36, but some of these may benefit
from the concession to widows of expatriates.
remainder number
The
no more than 20. If I am pressed on
this matter also, I am sure it would be right to confirm
that we propose to extend to the widows of ex-servicemen
the same concession that will be enjoyed by the widows of
expatriates.