TNAG-1849-FCO40-2624-House-of-Commons-Select-Committee-on-Foreign-Affairs-enquiry-1989 — Page 87

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TRANSCRIPT K SELECT COMITTEE ON HONG KONG - 24 MAY 1989

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MR TEMPLE-MORRIS (CONT);

Again it is in the same territory as paragraph 24,

but Jon Swain told us that Hong Kong Civil Servants, and

this is quoting his evidence LOW, are applying because of the wholly different circumstances of Hong Kong today and

those different circumstances are the special

circunstances mentioned in 4.5.

But your

Memorandum specifically states that the

special circumstances could not be interpreted as

referring to the general situation prevailing in Bong

Kong, that is another quote,

Your Memorandum then, which

no doubt you will mention, falls back or the individual,

having to judge the individual as such.

But we do tend to go round in circles here, do we

not, because how on earth can you judge the individual

without looking at the situation in Hong Kong which in

fact provokes his application in the first place?

NR RENTON:

But in this case of course,

our Memorandum does rely

on the very precise words in the Act, as you will realise.

The Act reads: "He may,

if he thinks fit in the special

circumstances of the applicant's case,

registered as such a citizen“,

cause him to be