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LegCo request.

HMG will

consider

sympathetically

applications for registration as British citizens under

Section 4(5) of the British Nationality Act 1981 from any

who are eligible under this provision because they are

British Dependent Territories citizens or other British

nationals, and served under the Government of Hong Kong,

for example in the Hong Kong volunteers. The number who

might be eligible is likely to be about 60.

Government is also ready to accept and grant applications

from any of the 270 or so former servicemen in Hong Kong

together with their

their dependants who wish to come to the

United Kingdom for settlement.

The

I believe the arrangements we have made for ex-servicemen

meet the concerns of the Association. I note that Mr

addressed

Jack Edwards, who

last year, is quoted

April as saying the

we are concerned".

itself.

the FEPOW Annual Assembly

in the Hong Kong Standard of 24

announcement

I think

is "good news as far as

this

reaction speaks for