3.
have an entitlement to registration as British citizens similar to the proposed entitlement to registration as BOCs. But subsequent generations will have no automatic claim to British citizenship, nor an entitlement to registration. Granting British citizenship to the current generation cannot therefore benefit the third and subsequent generation born
after 1997.
h) The Government have also made it plain that in the unlikely event of any British national being forced to leave Hong Kong and having nowhere to go, they would expect the Government of the day to consider sympathetically whether to
admit them, on a case by case basis.
2.
HMG SHOULD GRANT BRITISH CITIZENSHIP TO FORMER SERVICEMEN IN
HONG KONG, INCLUDING THE SMALL NUMBER OF FORMER PRISONERS OF WAR
We fully recognise the valiant contribution that these men gave during
the war.
But many of them were born in Hong Kong, as were their parents and grandparents, and all their personal and family connections are with Hong Kong. Most if not all of them are BDTCs. They will be entitled to become BN (0)s and will have the right of abode in Hong Kong under the agreement. To grant them British citizenship cannot secure their future in Hong Kong, which is where they wish to
continue to live.
dual British and
Furthermore some of them have another nationality.
It would be ultra
vires the Hong Kong Act to confer British citizenship on those people outside the proposed stateless provision [This would require an amendment to the British Nationality Act 1981.]
HMG SHOULD CONSIDER SYMPATHETICALLY APPLICATIONS FOR REGISTRATIO
UNDER S 4(5) OF THE BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1981
Will consider carefully any application from BDTCS under section 4(5) on the grounds of Crown Service under the Government of Hong Kong. Cannot, of course, apply this section to those whose service the Government of the UK, which may well have been the position for
most of the Hong Kong ex-servicemen.
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