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For information

(9.11.82)

Introduction

XCCI (82)55 Copy No

NOTE FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

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THE INPLICATIONS OF NOT AMENDING HONG KONG LEGISLATION PRIOR TO COMMENCEMENT OF THE BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1981 ON

1 JANUARY 1983

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This note has been written in response to the

Chief Secretary's undertaking to have examined the legal and Rober

practical implications of

t.

(a) the Immigration (Amendment) (No 2) Bill

1982; m

the British Nationality Act 1981 (Consequential Amendments) Bill 1982;

(b)

(c)

the British Nationality Act (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 1982; and

:

(a)

the Immigration (Amendment) (No 4) Bill 1982

12/4 Delaying the

consequentral

legislation

is more to HK's de friment than UK's it

not being enacted by 1 January 1983, the date on which the British Nationality Act 1981 (BNA 1981) comes into 'force.

Background

2

On 30 September 1982, following consideration of XCC (82)111 and XCC (82)114, Members advised and the Governor ordered that the consideration of the Bills at (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 above "should be deferred until there was a response from London on nomenclature in passports.

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# 2/11

In view of this advice, memoranda for Executive Council on the British Nationality (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 1982 and the Immigration (Amendment) (No 4) Bill 1982, which also stem from the BNA 1981, have not been issued to Members pending a response from London on 'nomenclature in passports.

BNA 1981

4

(a)

1/

K.

As an inevitable consequence of the BNA 1981

on 1 January 1983 citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKCS) who are connected, as specified in the BNA 1981,

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