TNAG-1849-FCO40-2624-House-of-Commons-Select-Committee-on-Foreign-Affairs-enquiry-1989 — Page 76

24 MAY 189 23:45

FROM COI TECH RADIO

TRANSCRIPT K SELECT COMMITTER ON HONG KONG

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24 WAY 1989

MR RENTON:

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PAGE.040.056

The

Could I really get back to your first point.

very fact that discretion to grant citizenship to this category was taken under Section 4.5 of the British Nationality Act, does imply a recognition of a duty and obligation in my language and the criteria used by the Home Secretary are set out in paragraph 24 of the

Memorandum that we sent you.

I think in brief, we looked for an exceptional level

of service, links with the United Kingdom,

and an

indication that the service performed benefitted the

United Kingdom, and this in essence was what was indicateá

in Parliament when the BMA of 1981 was going through.

It seems to that the criteria are right and that

I am aware, of

it is right to look for a UK connection.

course, of the comments that the number of grants under

this categorisation so far is very small out of a larger

total.

But I do think that this is pretty early days and

I think that there may statistically be a somewhat

different pattern established as the mouths and the years

Love 01.

MR TEMPLE-MORRIS;

You answer in terms of Section 4.5 and therefore I

have to question you about how generous you appear to be

in relation to Section 4.5.