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TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
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TELEGRAM NUMBER 257 OF 13 FBRUARY
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MIPT: HONG KONG AGREEMENT:
NATIONALITY ORDER IN COUNCIL
1. FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF HOARE'S LETTER TO MRS IP OF 7
FEBRUARY: BEGINS
NATIONALITY: ORDER IN COUNCIL
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FURTHER TO MY LETTER OF 17 JANUARY TO JOHN CHAN, I ENCLOSE A COPY OF A LETTER FROM THE HOME OFFICE, TOGETHER WITH A SECOND DRAFT OF THE ORDER IN COUNCIL.
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AS YOU WILL SEE, THEY HAVE, IN THE LIGHT OF YOUR COMMENTS AND THOSE OF FCO LEGAL ADVISERS, ABANDONED FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS DRAFT THEIR ATTEMPT TO DEFINE 'BDTCS BY VIRTUE OF A CONNECTION WITH HONG KONG AS HONG KONG BELONGERS' AND HAVE REPLACED IT WITH AN APPROACH SUGGESTED BY FCO LEGAL ADVISERS. AS EMERY'S LETTER SUGGESTS, HOWEVER, THEY ARE NOT YET CONVINCED THAT THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY TO PROCEED.
3. WE HAVE BEEN HAVING CONSIDERABLE DISCUSSION WITH THE HOME OFFICE ON THE QUESTION OF 'MIXED' BDTCS. OUR INCLINATION AT
PRESENT IS TO TAKE AS A GENERAL PRINCIPLE THE VIEW THAT WHERE IT
IS NECESSARV TO ESTABLISH A LINK WITH HONO KONG TO ESTABLISH BDTC STATUS, THE OERSON SHOULD NOT BE EXCLUDED FROM LOSS OF BDYC STATUS ON 1 JULY 1997, BUT WHERE BDTC STATUS CAN BE ESTABLISHED WITHOUT A RELIANCE ON ANY SUCH LINK, THE STATUS IS CLEARLY BY VIRTUE OF A CONNECTION WITH ANOTHER DEPENDENT TERRITORY AND SHOULD THEREFORE BE RETAINED ON 1 JULY 1997. 4. AS YOU WILL SEE, THE DRAFT ORDER CONTINUES TO ASSUME THAT AUTOMATIC ACQUISITION AT BIRTH OF BOC STATUS BY THOSE WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE STATELESS WILL BE EXTENDED ONLY TO THE FIRST OOST- 1997 QENERATION. WE ARE COMMUNICATING SEPARATELY ON THIS BY
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