front cover of the passport, supplies are ordered direct
and paid for by the dependent territory government, and
it.
rests with that government both to set the passport
fee and to use the revenue as it sees fit. Although
we encourage the dependent territory governments to set
their passport fee at a level comparable to the United
Kingdom fee charged under our Consular Fees Order,
there is no compulsion on them to do so.
4.
The Secretary of State agreed to the recommendation in
my submission of 4 October 1985 that, because passports
issued in the name of the Governor of Hong Kong will not
be acceptable to the Chinese authorities after 30 June 1997
on account of their colonial implications, passports issued
in Hong Kong to BN(0)s will be in the same format as those passports issued at our overseas posts, that they will be
issued under the Secretary of State's exercise of the
Royal prerogative and that the Government of Hong Kong will
be authorised to act as agent for the Secretary of State
in this respect.
5. The fees chargeable for passport services performed
in the name of the Secretary of State are those laid down
in Consular Fees Orders made under the Consular Fee Act
1980 and these will be the fees chargeable by the Governor
of Hong Kong when acting as agent for the Secretary of
State.
£15.
6.
The fee for the issue of a passport is currently
A
The fee for the issue of a passport currently charged
by the Government of Hong Kong under their Fees Ordinance
is HK$200, equivalent to about £20. They have informed
us that about 40% of this fee represents the administrative
costs of issuing the passport, including the supply of the
blank document The remaining 60% represents revenue for the
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