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NOTE OF MEETING HELD IN ROOM 263 AT QUEEN ANNE'S GATE ON 1 JULY
1985
SUBJECT: HONG KONG
Present: Mr Hyde (Chairman) )
Mr Pakenham-Walsh
Mr Holmes
Mr Nicholson
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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
24 JUL 1985
REGISTRY
Home Office
INDEX
PA
Action Taken
Mr Emery
Mr Ehrman
Miss Veale
Mr Powell
Mr Hills
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
INTRODUCTION
1.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the draft Order in Council prepared by the Home Office, and related passport matters.
ORDER IN COUNCIL
2. FCO had no substantive comments on the draft, with which they were content. Their legal adviser had some drafting points which he subsequently discussed with Mr Pakenham-Walsh. Mr Pakenham-Walsh had the draft re-typed to take these into account.
RIGHT OF ABODE
3. Mr Hyde raised the question of the proposed amendment to the Hong Kong Immigration Ordinance. Amongst other things, Hong Kong were proposing to remove the right of abode in Hong Kong before 1997 from some BDTCs who would not have right of abode in the SAR after that date. These would essentially be persons not born in Hong Kong, and who had not lived there continuously for seven years, and who had the right of abode elsewhere (that is to say anywhere else in the world). The Home Office view was that this proposal ran counter to the aim and purpose of the BNA 1981, which was intended to ensure that all BDTCs had the right of abode in one or other dependent territory.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.