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CONFIDENTIAL
FUNCTIONS TO BE TRANSFERRED IN JANUARY 1997
Registration as BC under the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990 [Item (9) of Appendix]
Time Schedule
Workload
Item
Type of Applications
for
transfer Section Concerned of function
1991/92 1996/97
1.
Registration as BCs under
My
S.1(4) of British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990 applications from spouses and minor children.
Jan 1997
British Nationality Division (BN)
114
424 (Note 1)
2.
Registration as BCs under
Jan 1997
BN
494
S.1(1) of British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990 -
100 (Note 2)
-
SSC applications.
Annex
Estimated volume Time schedule
Volume of paper files
of paper files
at present and upon transfer and space taken up space taken up
and place for
transfer of
records
)
51,500
54m2
UK Home Office (Transfer details
to be discussed nearer to Jan 1997.)
Notes: (1) Workload is estimated on the following assumptions :-
(a) The present application rate of spouse/child(ren) applying separately under Section 1(4) i.e. 6.4% will continue.
(b) Applications under Section 1(4) will be spread evenly during the period from 1993/94 to 1996/97.
(c) Estimated workload for 1996/97 :
=
[
total no. of quota x spouse/child(ren) application rate
V
= [
total no. of spouse/child(ren) applications received up to 28 Feb 1993 ] ÷ 4 50,000 X 6.4% 1,504 ] ÷ 4
424
(2) A guesstimated figure only as the no. of invitations to be issued by the Governor is unknown at this stage.
FUNCTION(P.5)
050CT1993
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