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I am replying to your letter of 20 August about the

Hong Kong Immigration Bill.

Mor

[The Bill

The Bill does not seek to impose any restrictions

on the freedom of entry into Hong Kong of citizens of

the United Kingdom and Colonies other than those

restrictions which have been in existence for several

the Bile

inter alia However, inter alia, it does seek to seek to

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years

However

facilitate the removal from the Colony of persons

(including citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies

who are not belongers of Hong Kong) who misbehave or

whose behaviour is not, in the opinion of the Governor-

in-Council, congúcive to the public good. The Bil1

apply

does not apply to any British subject who was born, or

naturalised as such, in Hong Kong, or who was registered

as such in the Colony under Section 7(2) of the

British Nationality Act 1948. Nor does it apply

to the wives or children of such persons.

The Government of Hong Kong is fully competent to

epact such legislation in its own right and there is no

Imperial statute which gives a British subject, as such,

either the right to enter a British overseas territory

or exemption from removal or deportation from such

Similarly, a British passport is not

territory.

intended to confer any such right or exemption on its

As you are no doubt aware, the United

holder.

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