JCWI Meeting on 17 December.
Note on points made in JCWI publications.
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Numbers relate to service numbers on the summary lists already circulated
A QUESTION OF BELONGING
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BOC and BN(0) are bound to be very similar. BDTC without transmisibility
is virtually BOC. A new non-transmissible status with the same benefits
as BDTC must equate to something like BOC. But BN(0) will identify
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former Hong Kong BDTCs. 4-- attached fret impare to hang Separle stuks.
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The 'devaluation'
If the citizenship started with the Commonwealth
Immigrants Act 1962, continued with the 1968 Act, and was codified in the
into 1971 Act. These Acts divided CUKCs with those subject to control and
those not. This is history, and there is no point arguing about it in
connection with the future of Hong Kong.
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Agreed. Chinese would not accept it.
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We are not trying to deny our role in the creation of Hong Kong's history.
Indeed we have been at pains to secure a continuing form of British Nationality to BDTCS there, as well as a continuation of Hong Kong's current way of life, fostered by Britain, for 50 years after the transfer.
Gibraltar and Falkland Islands irrelevant. [Both regarded by us as
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sovereign territories, whendas Hong Kong always recognised as leasehold,
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exping in 1997.
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Gibraltar:
inhabitants are BDTCs. Have a simple route to British
citizenship because they are UK nationals for EC purposes.
Also not clear that Spanish authorities regards
Gibraltarians as Spanish citizens.
Falklands: most inhabitants already British citizens. British citizen-
ship conferred on others in particular recognition of their
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