ROME
SECRETARY
उदव
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19 AUG 1932
PA
BOOK GENOCA. DEX
Dear Quint in
REGISTRY
IMMIGRATION RULES
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QUEEN ANNE'S GATE LONDON SWIH 9AT
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PS/M Rifkind had N. Gordon-Lamox
Legal Advisers
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At the meeting on 14th June H Committee approved the proposals in my memorandum H(82)28 for changes in the Immigration Rules to be incorporated in new Rules when the British Nationality Act is brought into force on 1st January 1983. I now attach a draft of the White Paper foreshadowed in that memorandum. Part I summarises the changes being made and Part II gives the full text of the new Rules, changes from the wording of the present Rules being underlined.
The Annex to this letter gives some comments on the changes described in Part I of the White Paper. I hope the controversy will be largely confined to the main change approved by H Committee on the admission of the husband or fiance of a British citizen, but the changes regarding nationals of European Community countries though not altering our present practice (except as regards police registration) may provide a focal point for expression of anti-Community feeling. There will also no doubt be discussion of the changes in the Rules concerning children born here who do not acquire British citizenship by birth.
As to timing, we have as H Committee asked consulted the Lord Privy Seal, who is content with the proposal to publish the White Paper shortly after the Party Conference, in the week beginning 18th October. We then envisage, with the Chief Whip's agreement, a debate on the White Paper immediately after the debate on The Queen's Speech (on or about 11th November) which would be followed by the laying of a Statement of Changes in the Rules in early December. The legal position is that the Statement of Changes would have effect from 1st January but could be disapproved by a resolution of either House passed within 40 days. We can expect such resolutions to be tabled and I would hope the necessary debates could take place in December, though if this proves impossible they might have to take place early in the New Year.
/To meet
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C.H., D.C.L..
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