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DSR 11 (Revised)

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FROM: Mr Eggar

DEPARTMENT:

TEL. NO:

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

TO:

Sir Trevor Skeet MP

Top Secret

Secret

Confidential

Restricted

Unclassified

House of Commons

London SWIA OAA

PRIVACY MARKING

SUBJECT:

........In Confidence

CAVEAT....

TYPE: Draft/Final 1+

Reference

HK1ALB

Your Reference

Copies to:

When you called at

write to

y ou

about the

the FCO last week I promised to

nationality

implications

of

the

Hong Kong Agreement.

As

you know

the Hong Kong Act

for the ending of British sovereignty

over

on

1 July

in 1997

1985 made provision

and jurisdiction

accordance with

the

Hong Kong

terms of the Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong

reached

Kong

People's Republic of China.

between HMG and the Government of the

Under the terms of the Joint

become

a Special

Declaration, Hong Kong will

Administrative Region (SAR) of the

China on 1 July 1997.

People's Republic of

Paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the

Hong Kong Act conferred power to give effect by Order in

Council to the

nationality provisions

of the United

Kingdom Memorandum on

nationality

associated

wi th

the

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Joint Declaration.