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(v)
The name of the Director of the Visa Office
will be notified to, and agreed in advance
by, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
(vi)
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The Director of the Visa Office will provide the Director of Protocol (will) a full list of
China-based members of the staff and their
dependents on 1 January and 1 July each year.
Details of new arrivals and departures will
be provided as they occur. The number of such
staff will be kept to a reasonable level
consistent with the work of the Visa Office.
(vii)
China-based members of the Visa Office staff
will be provided by the Hong Kong authorities
with identity cards to show that they work in
the Visa Office.
(viii)
The Hong Kong branch of the New China News
Agency and its Director will continue as now
to be used as the normal channel of communication
in Hong Kong between the British authorities and
the authorities of the People's Republic of China.
Footnotes (for oral communication)
(i)
The privileges in the draft legislation are
based on those provided for under existing
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