TNAG-0660-FCO40-809-Implications-for-Hong-Kong-of-changes-in-British-nationality-1977 — Page 182

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SAVINGRAM

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DISCUSSION DOCUMENT ON NATIONALITY LAW

1. The section of the document covering the transitional arrangements for British Overseas Citizenship includes a statement that "with the conferment of British Citizenship

on some British Protected Persons and British Overseas

Citizenship on the remainder, the status of British Protected Person would disappear". This statement does not

that mean/there has ever been an intention to confer British

Overseas Citizenship on British Frotected Persons of the Solomon Islands (or on Brunei subjects). No new nationality legislation is likely to come into force before 1930, and

it is assumed that the Solomon Islands will have achieved

independence well before that date. In informing Ministers about the you may make clear that our intention is

to retain the status of British Protected Person for the

people of the Solomon Islands as long as the Solomon Islands remains a Protectorate; it is not proposed to change their status to British Overseas Citizen. The document makes no mention of this simply because there is no likelihood of new nationality legislation being brought into effect before Solomon Islands independence.

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