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of the Gibraltar Adoption Ordinance which provides all

the normal safeguards. We now think that the omission

of adopted minors could not be defended without

casting aspersions on the probity of the Gibraltar

courts, and might also be held to conflict with the

1967 European Convention on the Adoption of Children

which required States to facilitate the acquisition

by an adopted child of the nationality of his

adoptive parent(s).

(e) Our EC partners are now likely to take a fairly

relaxed view about additional categories which are

minor in terms of numbers than they did in 1972

when they shared with us some concern about an influx

of Commonwealth immigrants.

8. I therefore recommend approval of the attached

revised Declaration and supplementary explanatory

document for submission to the Scrutiny Committees and

presentation in EC.

9. This submission has been cleared with ECD(I), SED

HKGD, FID, MVD, Chief Passport Officer and the Legal

Advisers to NTD and ECD(I) and is put forward with the

concurrence of Home Office officials and Legal Advisers.