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MEMBERS OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

二法局拓展

3 January 1986

The White Paper on the Draft Hong Kong

(British Nationality) Order 1986

I am writing to you on behalf of all the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council to express their deep concern on issues raised in this White Paper. That concern is shared by all Unofficial Members, both the 22

Members and the appointed

24

Members, elected

and accurately reflects, I believe, the views of the community at large.

You may already have received reports about the adjournment debate on the White Paper on the Draft Bong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986, which took place in

last. on the 4th December the Legislative Council

is purpose

you

to impress

on you Members attach to this importance legislation

of unease

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and the

deep

sense

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the draft

and

disappointment which they and many other people have about the measures it proposes.

Their worries have focussed on (i) the acceptability in countries around the world of yet another unproven type of British passport, and (ii) the proposal leave stranded in Bong Kong nearly 10,000 people of

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