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with what they want

the right of abode there. In the

unlikely event however of any British national being forced

to leave Hong Kong and having nowhere to go, the Government

have made it clear, and I want to repeat again, that

we would expect the Government of the day to consider

sympathetically whether to admit such people on a case

by case basis in the light of the particular circumstances.

The Unofficial Members have also asked that some 400 or so former

servicemen in Hong Kong should be granted British citizenship

or alternatively that the Government should consider

sympathetically any application they might make for

registration as British citizens under section 4(5) of

the British Nationality Act 1981.

The Government fully recognise the contirbution these servicemen

made during the war and indeed the contirbution made by many

other people in Hong Kong during those years. But it does not

necessarily follow that we should mark this contribution by granting

/them