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EXCHANGE OF NOTES BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ANd the GoveRNMENT OF DENMARK CONCERNING THE RECIPROCAL ABOLITION OF VISAS
London, 20th March, 1947
No. 1
Mr. C. R. Attlee to Count Eduard Reventlów
Foreign Office,
Your Excellency,
20th March, 1947 I HAVE the honour to inform your Excellency that, as a first step towards the eventual restoration of freedom of travel to Danish and British terri- tories, His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom are prepared to conclude with the Government of Denmark an agreement in the following terms:-
(1) Danish subjects shall be free to travel from any place whatever to the.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland without the necessity of obtaining a visa in advance provided that they are furnished with valid Danish passports.
(2) Holders of valid passports bearing, on the cover, the inscription 'British Passport" and, inside, the description of the holder's national status as "British subject" shall be free to travel from any place whatever to Denmark without the necessity of obtaining a visa in advance.
(3) It is understood that the waiver of the visa requirement does not exempt Danish and British subjects coming respectively to the United Kingdom and to Denmark from the necessity of complying with the British and the Danish laws and regulations concerning the entry, residence (temporary or permanent) and employment or occupation of foreigners, and that travellers who are unable to satisfy the immigration authorities that they comply with these laws and regulations are liable to be refused leave to enter or land. (4) As regards travel to Danish or British colonies and overseas territories, protectorates or territories under mandate or trusteeship, it is under- stood that visas will continue to be required.
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2. If the Danish Government are prepared to accept the foregoing provisions I have the honour to suggest that the present note and your Excellency's reply in similar terms should be regarded as placing on record the agreement between the two Governments, which shall take effect on 22nd March, 1947.
I have, &c.
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C. R. ATTLEE.
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