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ME2 AHG

CONFIDENTIAL

HONG KONG: BRITISH NATIONALS (OVERSEAS):

FACILITATING TRAVEL TO THIRD COUNTRIES

DRAFT NOTE TO MISSIONS IN LONDON

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs presents his compliments to their Excellencies and Messieurs the Heads of Diplomatic Missions

in London and has the honour to inform them that a Hong Kong Nationality Order in Council made under

under the Hong Kong Act

1985 will come into operation on 1 July 1987.

British

July

Declaration

on

the

Majesty's

of question

Government and the

of China.

Under

The Hong Kong Act 1985 made provision for the ending of

and Sovereignty

jurisdiction over Hong Kong

in 1997,

accordance with the terms of

the

made Hong Kong

Government of the People's

the terms of

on

1

Joint

by

Her

the

Joint

on

July

Republic Declaration, Hong Kong will become a Special Administrative

1 of Region (SAR)

the People's Republic of China 1997. Paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the Hong Kong Act

to the conferred power to give effect by Order in Council nationality provisions of the United Kingdom Memorandum associated with the Joint Declaration.

are

This

The main provisions of the Order in Council

summarised in the enclosed explanatory memorandum. summary is provided for the information and convenience of Missions and of their domestic authorities concerned.

For a

full and authoritative statement of the position it will be to refer to the terms of the Order itself.

necessary

CONFIDENTIAL