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Adjournment Debate on the White

Paper on the Draft Hong Kong

(British Nationality) Order 1986

Speech by the Attorney General

on 4 December 1985

Sir,

By their speeches on the White Paper on the

draft Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order of 1986,

my honourable friends have raised in the course of

this debate a number of important issues. These

include the need to make the new BN (0) passport as

effective a travel document as the existing BDTC

passport in providing access to third countries

without the need for a visa; the need to make sure

that the BN (0) passport enjoys the confidence of immigration officials of third countries because it

has an adequate right of abode endorsement; for Her Majesty's Government to do its utmost to try and ensure that the BN (0) passport is widely

the need

acceptable internationally and possibly, to this end,

include in the passport freedom of entry to the

United Kingdom; the need to give sympathetic