TNAG-1080-FCO40-1330-Implications-for-Hong-Kong-of-changes-in-the-British-nationa-1981 — Page 122

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THE FOLLOWING ARE SELECTED PASSAGES FROM MR WHITE LAW'S SPEECH. ON THE NATIONALITY 3ILL WHICH SHOULD BE OF INTEREST:

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...THE MAIN REASON WHY IT IS NECESSARY TO REPLACE THE EXISTINGA IS, QUITE SIMPLY, THAT THE CITIZENSHIP CREATED BY THE BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1942 NO LONGER GIVES ANY CLEAR INDICATION OF WHO

CITIZENSHIP AND THE HAS THE RIGHT TO ENTER THE UNITED KINGDOM.

RIGHT OF ADODE, MITCH OUGHT TO BE RELATED, HAVE OVER THE YEARS

ONE CAN DE A CITIZEN OF THE PARTED COMRANY WITH EACH OTHER. UNITED KINGDQK AND COLONIES AND NOT HAVE THE RIGHT OF ABODE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. CONVERSELY, ONE CAN HAVE THE RIGHT OF ABODE HERE

CTRODENSE INGHENEA36URUGOVERNMENT, IN ITS

GREEN PAPER. SAID ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME THING. PARAGRAPH 10

T THE MOST SERIOUS DRAWBACK TO THE OF THAT DOCUMENT BEGINS: STATUS OF CITIZEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND COLONIES IS THAT IT DOES NOT PROVIDE A READY DEFINITION OF WHO HAS THE RIGHT OF ENTRY TO THE UNITED KINGDOM'

IN CONSEQUENCE, HOLDERS OF THE PRESENT CITIZENSHIP MAY, NOT UNNATURALLY, BE ENCOURAGED TO BELIEVE, DESPITE THE IMMIGRATION LAS TO THE CONTRARY, THAT THEY DO HAVE A RIGHT OF ENTRY TO THE UNITED KINGDOM. WE ARE DO ING NOTHING NEW IN SUGGESTING THAT OUR CITIZENSHIP SHOULD GIVE A BETTER IDEA OF WHERE PEOPLE ACTUALLY

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