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8. IF FOR ANY REASON IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO SECURE THE AMENDMENTS IN ONE OR OTHER OF THE PROPOSALS IN PARAGRAPHS 6 AND 7 ABOVE A THIRD ALTERNATIVE WOULD BE AN AMENDMENT
TO SCHEDULE 1 TO ADD THE NEW SUB-PARAGRAPH (F) REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPH 7 ABOVE WITHOUT AMENDING PARAGRAPH 1(3) OF THE SCHEDULE.
9. IT IS DIFFICULT TO JUDGE FROM HERE WHICH OF THESE ALTERNATIVES
WOULD HAVE THE GREATEST CHANCE OF SUCCESS AND WE SHOULD MUCH APPRECIATE YOUR ADVICE BEFORE AN APPROACH IS MADE TO THE HOME OFFICE.
10. OF COURSE IF ON FURTHER EXAMINATION IT TRANSPIRES THAT CROWN SERVICE MAY NOT INCLUDE UNOFFICIALS THEN OUR STRONG PREFERENCE WOULD BE FOR EITHER THE SECOND OR THE THIRD
ALTERNATIVE PROPOSED ABOVE.
OTHER AMENDMENTS
11. ADDITIONALLY WE ARE CONSIDEREING SOME OTHER POSSIBLE AMENDMENTS BUT ARE NOT YET SUFFICIENTLY FAR ADVANCED TO MAKE FIRM PROPOSALS. HOWEVER THERE IS ONE REGARDING NATURALISATION WHICH WOULD HAVE PRESENTATIONAL ADVANTAGE HERE. AS YOU KNOW UNOFFICIALS ATTACH IMPORTANCE TO THE HOME SECRETARY TAKING INTO ACCOUNT, IN EXERCISING HIS DISCRETION FOR NATURALISATION, THE CONSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CBDTS AND THE UNITED KINGDOM. TO GIVE THIS ASPECT STATUTORY EFFECT WE PROPOSE THAT A NEW PARAGRAPH SHOULD BE INSERTED IN SCHEDULE I
AS FOLLOWS:
''2A. FOR THE PURPOSES OF PARAGRAPH 1 AND 2 THE SECRETARY OF STATE SHALL, ON AN APPLICATION FOR NATURALISATION AS A BRITISH CITIZEN UNDER SECTION 4(1) BY A PERSON WHO IS A CITIZEN OF THE BRITISH DEPENDENT TERRITORIES, TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION, WHEN EXERCISING HIS DISCRETION WHETHER TO GRANT HIM A CERTIFICATE OF NATURALISATION, THE CONSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIP THAT CITIZENS OF THE BRITISH DEPENDENT TERRITORIES HAVE WITH THE UNITED KINGDOM””.
MACLEHOSE
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HK & GD NTD FED
SIR E YOUDE MR ADAMS MR DONALD
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