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Extracted from Draft Speech by Hon JJ SWAINE, OBE, QC, JP Legislative Council

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22.11.1985

POLICY DEBATE

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1985

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Rationality and Passports

An adjournment debate on the White Paper on the Draft

Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986 has been planned for 4th December, 1985, so I will be brief on this occasion. I welcome Your Excellency's statement that the British Government has undertaken to do its utmost to obtain international recognition of the proposed British National (Overseas) passport. The difficulty hinges I believe on a suitable form of endorsement to indicate that the holder has right of abode in Hong Kong. I would go further afield and suggest that Her Majesty's Government would best achieve international recognition of the passport if it were itself to recognise the value of the passport for securing entry into the U.K. As the passport will be issued under the authority of the British

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