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FM HO G KONG 160910Z JUL 85

TO IMMEDIATE F C O

TELEGRAM NUMBER 1533 OF 26 JULY

INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING

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OUR TELNO 1512-15154 NATIONALITY ORDER IN COUNCIL.

IT HAS OCCURRED TO US THAT IT WOULD BE USEFUL, AT OUR MEETING NEXT WEEK, TO LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING-

(A) PROVISIONS IN THE LEGISLATION OF OTHER DEPENDENT TERRITORIES, SUCH AS GIBRALTAR, WHICH IDENTIFY BDTCS BY VIRTUE OF A CONNECTION WITH A PARTICULAR DEPENDENT TERRITORY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEFINING BELONGERSHIP OR RIGHT OF ABODE IN THAT DEPENDENT TERRITORY: AND

(B) WHAT SORT OF BENEFITS OR DUTIES THE STATUS OF COMMONWEALTH

CITIZEN IN FACT CARRIES.

2. YOU MAY WISH TO QUICKLY RESEARCH THE ABOVE SUBJECTS AND ARRANGE

FOR THE RELEVANT INFORMATION TO BE TABLED AT OUR FORTHCOMING

MEETING.

3. WE HAVE RECONSIDERED THE FORMULAR FOR ACQUISITION BY ADOPTING IN ARTICLE 2(1)(A)(111) OF THE REVISED DRAFT ORDER IN OUR TELNO 1513 AND WISH TO PROPOSE THE FOLLOWING ALTERNATIVE PROVISIONS

*(11) WAS ADOPTED (IN HONG KONG OR ANY OTHER DEPENDENT TERRITORY) BY A SINGLE ADOPTER WHO BY VIRTUE OF THIS ORDER CEASES TO BE A BRITISH DEPENDENT TERRITORIES CITIZEN WITH EFFECT FROM 1 JULY 1997

(OR WOULD HAVE SO CEASED BUT FOR DEATH):

(IV) WAS JOINTLY ADOPTED IN HONG KONG BY ADOPTERS ONE OR BOTH

OF WHOM BY VIRTUE OF THIS ORDER CEASE TO BE A DDTC WITH EFFECT FROM

1 JULY 1997 (OR WOULD HAVE SO CEASED BUT FOR DEATH):

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