provision was to ensure that children born to members of the armed forces and of the Diplomatic Service and en poste abroad will count as British by birth and
not by descent. The extension of this to wider categories of British citizens working abroad may call
the Crown servant provision itself in question.
will also be unpopular with British employees of
non-EC international organisations who are not so
privileged; NATO for example, or the United Nations and its agencies.
3.
It
associated
Jurips such as HMOCS
This is however an inevitable part of the price
extracted by EC supporters in the Lords. There are no
similarly Cogent parliamentary reasons for expanding
the concession to include other groups of British
citizens working abroad, and I recommend that the
Lord Privy Seal should reply briefly to Mr Whitelaw
as in the attached draft.g
4.
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The departments to whom this submission is copied
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