TNAG-1834-FCO40-2608-Sensitivity-review-of-Hong-Kong-Government-records-1988 — Page 23

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Mr Wood agree

Confidential MCD 444/1

on all counts. em9/xi

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The attached minute arises from questions put to

LRD by Don Brach.

2. My

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now is that applications for naturalisation should

be treated as HMg records and should not be handed to the

✓ SAR. They

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and not necessary for the administration of

the SAR. They

are handled in our behalf by the Immigration Department: it 12K were not a dependent timitry they would be handled by our Embassy / post. Post 197 they will be handled by the Consulate-general

3. There will doubtless be other areas of Immigration Department work which will fall within this category. And this questin is part of the lager question of how these and sinvitar functions with be taken over by the Consulato-general in the cause. This is a bigger question than archive, and I

sujjest it be drawn to Mr Brock's attention in a nyanse