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Mr Wilson, SED Mr Edwards, WIAD Mr Carruthers, SPD Mr Spreckley, ECD(I) Parliamentary Unit

LORD BRUCE OF DONINGTON'S FALKLAND ISLANDS (BRITISH CITIZENSHIP) BILL

Home Office draft speech for the Second Reading

1. The effect of the British Nationality Act 1981 in

the Falkland Islands will be to make, in round numbers

1600 of the 2/000

2,000

make,

islanders simultaneously British

citizens and British Dependent Territories citizens. The

remaining 400 will be British Dependent Territories

citizens only.

2. Lord Bruce's amendment is designed to make those

400 British citizens as well. It is accepted that the

amendment will probably succeed. The Second Reading

is expected to take place during the week beginning

Monday 18 October

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This is an unwelcome prospect for,

the Home Office. Mr Whitelaw sees it as a threat to the

essential distinctiveness of British citizenship which

alone carries the right to enter and live in the United

Kingdom. We foresee complications in our relations with

Hong Kong where there will be resentment against an

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