TNAG-1192-FCO40-1494-Implications-for-Hong-Kong-of-changes-in-the-British-nationa-1982 — Page 105

DSR 11 (Revised)

Minuts/letter/teleletter/despatch/nxte

DRAFT:

FROM:

Mr R Bone

DEPARTMENT:

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

TO:

Top Secret

Secret

Confidential

Restricted

CJ Walters Esq

Private Secretary

Home Office

Queen Anne's Gate

London SWI

TEL. NO:

TYPE: Draft/Final 1+

Reference

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Your Reference

Copies to:

Unclassified

PRIVACY MARKING

.......In Confidence

CAVEAT.

SUBJECT: HONG KONG PASSPORTS

Mr Pym has seen John Coles' letter of 21 October and has

asked me to make the following points as a possible basis

for further advice to the Prime Minister

Enclosures-flag(s)...........

We should probably start by picking up

the Home Secretary's point about safeguarding our general

position and ensuring that long Kong does not become

a precedent for other dependent territories - still less

for British Overseas Citizens, British Protected Persons

and other residuals.

The recognition by our legal advisers and yours that there

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is no purely legal objection to including the words

'British national' in Hong Kong passports could, if

pursued to its logical conclusion lead to descriptions of

nationality on the lines -

British national: British citizen

British national: British Dependent Territories

Citizen [name of dependency]

British national: British Overseas Citizen

British national: British Protected Person

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