TNAG-1384-FCO40-1832-Future-of-Hong-Kong-nationality-and-citizenship-1985 — Page 57

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Hong Kong Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

LONDON

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HOME OFFICE

Lunar House Wellesley Road Croydon CR9 2BY

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760 2829

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Dear Wilhan

Our reference NTY/85 1/387/4

29 August 1985

HKK 040 LEIVED IN REGISTRY - 4 SEP 1985

HONG KONG

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LIST OF PERSONS CONNECTED WITH HONG KONG

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Attached is a further revised version of the list, which takes accoun of your letter of 22 ́August and amendments proposed by Hong Kong in Telno 1718 of 23-August.

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Most of Hong Kong's proposed amendments are acceptable and have been incorporated. Perhaps I can binefly note those areas where we do not

or where we would welcome some further information:

agree,

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The overall title of the list has been amended, as the second part of the definition was not appropriate. This obviates the need for Hong Kong's proposed amendment to category A1. The list now simply constitutes a list of people connected with Hong Kong. Not all of these will lose BDTC: those with a separate route to BDTC through another Dependent Territory (as exemplified in paragraph B of Hong Kong Tel) will be unaffected by the Order by virtue of Article 3: the "mixed" BDTCs whom we have agreed to exempt from the provisions of the Order will be excepted from loss by virtue of Article 2(3). There is therefore no need to qualify any of the individual categories in the list.

2.

Tel paras I-0, Q, R, and T.

We appreciate Hong Kong's point about the "appropriate governor" rule, but is this fool-proof? What happens if another Governor accidentally registers a person who should have been registered in Hong Kong because his qualifying connections were with Hong Kong? Is that person not a Hong Kong Belonger?

If so,

then it seems to do no harm to keep the Article 2(1)(c) references in just in case. If Hong Kong (and NTD) can assure us that such "wrong" registrations will not take place, then it may be that the references can be deleted.

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You also let me have an advance copy of Hong Kong Telno 1717, in which Hong Kong question the wisdom of publishing the list of categories as an Annex to the White Paper. We take Hong Kong's point that we cannot be