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Registry No.

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted. Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

DRAFT LETTER

To:-

Richard C Mitchell Esq MP House of Commons

Type 1 +

From

Mr Royle

Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

..In Confidence

the

I am replying to your letter of 20 August about the

Bie

Hong Kong Immigration Bill.

Caggeration

seek to

gestation.

J. The does not seek to impose any restrictions on the

B

freedom of entry into Hong Kong of citizens of the

restuctions United Kingdom and Colonies other than those, which have

However, inter alia

been in existence for several years. It does however it does suck

seek, inter at, to facilitate the removal from the

L parsons (including the United Kingdom longers of Hong Konz

Colony of/citizens of

citizens

who misbehave or whose behaviour is not, in the

opinion of the Governor-In-Council, conducive to the

public good.

Eegistation witt

The Bill 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.

3. The Government of Hong Kong is fully competent to enact

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

territoris.

Similarly, a British passport is not

intended to confer any such right or exemption on its

holder.

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