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You wrote to me on 24 September about the related questions of the format of passports and the issue of passports to BN(O)s in Hong Kong.
2. On the first point I confirm that the second paragraph of your letter accurately reflects the outcome of discussions between HO and FCO officials regarding the proposed format of passports to be issued to British nationals who will not qualify for the common format passport (CFP) because they are not 'United Kingdom nationals for European Community purposes'.
submit these proposals
We shall
be submitting now to our Ministers to let them know what is being proposed.
3. As regards the arrangements for the issue of passports to BN(0)s in Hong Kong between 1 July 1987, when the new national status is introduced, and 1 July 1987, when the issue of passports will fall to British consular officers, I confirm that our Legal Advisers see no legal or constitutional difficulty in the Foreign Secretary authorising the Governor of Hong Kong to act on his behalf in this respect. Although the financial aspects have yet to be finalised, we shall shortly be submitting to Minister
on the other issues.
4. A letter received from the Treasury last week gives a somewhat different answer to what we had been led to expect, as was recorded in paragraph 9 of the enclosure to
however You will be pleased to know that they have your letter.
A confirmed that they would see no objection to the cost of the passports themselves and Hong Kong's administrative
/charges
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