TNAG-1557-FCO40-2121-Future-of-Hong-Kong-nationality-and-passports-Hong-Kong-(Br-1986 — Page 81

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Seuran a Stato 58

M. Gay

Thank you

Private Secretary

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FROM: A C Galsworthy

DATE:

9 January 1986

cc: PS/Lady Young

PS/Mr Renton

Sir W Harding 2. Wilsm or,

HONG KONG NATIONALITY ORDER IN COUNCIL: LETTER FROM

MISS LYDIA DUNN

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pst copy also +, DS/PUS

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1.

ou r

comments

on

MP s on the Hong Kong

to be debated in the

The Secretary of State asked for

Miss Dunn's letter of 3 January to all

Nationality Order in Council, which i s

House of Commons on 16 January.

2.

The letter is written in Miss Dunn's capacity as senior

Unofficial on LegCo. In it she takes up the four major

requests made in the LegCo debate on 4 December:

(a)

that HMG should do what it can to ensure that the BN(0)

passport is fully acceptable to third countries;

(b)

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(d)

3.

fide

that an endorsement should be entered in BN (O) passports

to allow unobstructed entry to the UK by

by bona

travellers;

that

non-Chinese BDTC should be granted full British Citizenship rather than BN (O)/ BOC status.

as

that former servicemen who fought in British forces during the Second World War should be registered British citizens under Section 4 of the BNA, 1981.

The letter now has the unanimous support of LegCo, EXCO

and the Hong Kong Government. Miss Dunn spoke on her letter in

strong terms in LegCo on 8 January, saying that failure to meet

requests would add to the profound resentment felt by

these

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