TNAG-0901-FCO40-1111-Implications-for-Hong-Kong-of-changes-in-British-nationality-1979 — Page 34

J

even if his father is a CUKC by descent only. Regis- tration of the birth (not possible in Commonwealth countries) is not necessary. Members of the Diplomatic Service have long felt that this provision was inadequate because their children born abroad are CUKC by descent only. Waless the child himself enters the service of the Crown his children will not be British at birth if born abroad. me right to transmit nationality by consular registration is to be taken away under the new proposals and in any event is not at present possible in Commonwealth countries.

8. PCO staff associations and the Diplomatic Service Vives Association have made representations that the law be relaxed so that children of members of the Diplomatic Service wherever born will have the right to transmit their retionality to their children as if they had been born in the Unitei ingdom. The Home Office have considered these representeons sympathetically but there may be difficulty in defining ʼn branches of the public service (outside

I

direct : service

C

such as the Diplomatic Service) are to have this privilege and further difficulty if British businessman abroad demand similar privileges for their children,

The New Zealand Solution

2. The Cornment of New Zealand have solved a similar problem in the following way:-

{2} birth in New Zealand confers New Zealand citizen-

skip by birth;

(b)

Kew Zealand citizenship can also be acquired by

rant;

(c) a child born abroad to either a New Zealand

civizen by birth or to a New Zealand citizen by grant becomes a New Zealand citizen by descent;

/(a)