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double-lock the door. Similarly the change in name of citizenship was regarded as explicable only as an act

of political disengagement."

Lord MacLehose went on to say :

"..... I do not think that Hong Kong people themselves would wish to carry their resentment to the point of opposing doing something for the Falkland Islanders.

Furthermore, if this Bill becomes law the Government will have accepted, admittedly in this very special case, the need to amend the Act's provisions over a dependent territory, within the limits of what is necessary and numerically possible, when justified by special circumstances."

I do not think I have reported Lord MacLehose's words out of context. I only wish I could have said it half as well.

With the reservations implicit in these observations, I support the motion.