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have agreed in the
face of
that the Order should first
Parliamentary pressure
be debated with "green
edges", withdrawn to take account of comments and
reintroduced for debate in the usual way under affirmative resolution procedures.
10.
Related to the introduction of the new status
we will need to provide for the issue of new British National (Overseas) passports from 1987. We need
to agree with the Chinese a form of words to be
inserted in these passports that will indicated
that the holder has the right of abode in Hong Kong
and
the Hong Kong Special
1997
after
Administrative Region.
in
11.
No issue is more
the issue of nationality.
suspicion, mostly arising
in
sensitive in Hong Kong than HMG is regarded with deep
out of the BNA 1981. It
is a subject on which we need to tread carefully.
12.
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