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(F) UNDERTAKINGS

12.

Reference has been made [in another place] to the need

to provide certain undertakings to those who could feel

themselves at risk in Hong Kong after 1997.

I can assure the

House that the Government have this point very much in mind.

In certain very limited cases, certain rights of admission

will exist under the discretion of the Home Secretary in the

UK. That will be on a very limited basis for people who were

exposed to special considerations and special factors.

(G) NATIONALITY (SUPPLEMENTARY POINTS)

(a)

Rights of Abode

13.

Individual rights of abode in the UK are not affected by

the agreement. BDTCs do not have this

right of abode now;

But rights of abode.

nor will their future status carry it.

in Hong Kong are fully protected by the agreement.

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