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From: R M Marsden
Hong Kong Department
Date: 13 March 1991
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Ms Barrett, Legal
Advisers
Mr Burns
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2. Ms Marsden
PS/Lord Caithness
Thank you.
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BRITISH NATIONALITY (HONG KONG) ACT: LETTER FROM THE
HONG KONG BAR ASSOCIATION
Problem
A 1. Mr Anthony Rogers, Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar
Association has written to the Secretary of State asking
that members of the Hong Kong Bar Association, and in
particular those who are members of one of the four London
Inns of Court, be given the same treatment as employees of British companies in Hong Kong ie that they should qualify for up to an additional 35 points under the nationality scheme. How to respond?
Recommendation
2.
I recommend that Lord Caithness shuld reply on the lines
of the attached draft, which has been cleared with the Hong
Kong Government, the Home Office, and our Legal Advisers.
Background
3.
Mr Rogers' proposal is based on the fact that the list
of companies which have been defined as British for the
purposes of the Nationality Act (published on 12 February)
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