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TRANSCRIPT J: SELECT COMMITTEE RE HONG KONG 24 MAY 1989
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MR. TIM RENTON (CONTD);
I have dealt with what I see as the very different
circumstances between the BDTCS in Hong Kong and the 400
not the 1400 the 400 Falkland Islanders who were given
British citizenship after the war with Argentina and I do
not agree with you that there are double standards, Sir,
all, but I go back to your first point.
at
Certainly anything like approaching the right of
admission facility for Hong Kong BDTCs into this country,
it is our judgement that it could definitely not be done
by Order in Council. I do not see that it could be done
It would have to be done by by secondary legislation.
primary legislation and obviously, the mood of the House
changes from year to year.
I at the moment, as I said earlier, find it very
hard to believe that primary legislation that had the
purpose of giving right of abode, right to settlement in
this country, to three-and-a-quarter million BDTCs in Hong this
Kong would be acceptable to the House.
MR. PETER TEMPLE-MORRIS:
If I could just track back quickly to one of
Xr, Canavan's questions about the difference between BNQ and BOC and you referred to BOC and the way you described
as BNO and then, when it, it seemed to be exactly the same with one breath we exhort everyone to apply for a BBO and
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