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TRANSCRIPT K SELECT COMMITTEE OF HONG KONG 24 MAY 1989
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MR RENTON (CONT):
former Servicemen, 8 to Crown Servants.
This is an area
where the Governor makes recommendations to the Home
Secretary. The Home Secretary is not bound to listen to or
to follow the Governor's recommendations but obviously he
would consider the Governor's recommendations very
closely.
The criteria followed were as I said earlier and I
do think that these are early days, that it is likely that
the statistics might change, may improve as the months go
on and I suspect from what you say that this is an area
that in your Committee's report you will wish to make
clear reference to Mr Chairman.
MR TEMPLE-MORRIS:
I dare say there will be a certain appeal for a
Christmas spirit. We hope it might enter the field sooner
rather than later. But is there anything that forces you
in the Nationality Act to interpret this so sparingly and
so restrictively. There is nothing, is there, that forces
you to do this?
MR RENTON:
No but of course the section itself is against the
general principle of the Act. It was put in as a specific
discretion or exemption and I do not have anything more to
No comments yet.
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