TNAG-0903-FCO40-1113-Implications-for-Hong-Kong-of-changes-in-British-nationality-1979 — Page 10

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DUAL NATIONALITY LAW

The Home Secretary has said in Parliament that the Parliamentary timetable will not now allow the introduction of a new Nationality Bill in the present session but that the Government will publish a White Paper about the new nationality law in 1980. The Home Office are working to have this ready for March. One of the few major points remaining to be settled concerns the status of colonial belongers.

discussion with the Home Office we have taken full account of the views expressed by Governors in response to FCO telegrams Nos 51, 52 and 53 to Anguilla and we have made progress. The purpose of this telegram is to seek your views on the final elements.

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2. The Home Office have agreed at official level to recommend to Ministers that there should be three categories of citizenship in the new law so that colonial belongers can be in a separate category from "British Overseas Citizens". The collective title remains to be decided. The range of possible titles is probably restricted to the following: /a)