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SAID THAT THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE SCHEME WHO NO LONGER HAD CHINESE

NATIONALITY WOULD ENJOY CONSULAR PROTECTION. THE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT IF HONG KONG PEOPLE DID NOTHING ABOUT THEIR NATIONALITY AFTER 1997, THEY WOULD HAVE DUAL NATIONALITY. THE HONG KONG STANDARD QUOTED INFORMED SOURCES AS SAYING THAT BRITAIN HAD UNSUCCESSFULLY

TRIED TO PERSUADE THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO KEEP SILENT ON THE

NATIONALITY PACKAGE SO THAT IT COULD HAVE AN EASIER PASSAGE THROUGH PARLIAMENT.

BILL

OF RIGHTS

13. A MEMBER OF THE HONG KONG BAR COMMITTEE, ALAN HOO, SAID THAT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT SHOULD AMEND THE LETTERS PATENT OF HONG KONG TO ENTRENCH THE PROPOSED BILL OF RIGHTS IN ORDER TO ENSURE A SMOOTH TRANSITION TO CHINESE RULE, THE SCM POST (17.1) REPORTED. HOO SAID ANY DELAY IN ENACTING THE BILL OR LEAVING IT BARE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS ENTRENCHMENT WOULD BE A 'LAMENTABLE EXERCISE OF BRITISH RESPONSIBILITY'.

WILSON

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LIMITED

HKD

HD/FED

HD/PLANNERS

PUSD

PS

PS/MR MAUDE

58

ADDITIONAL

10

HK AGREEMENT

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DISTRIBUTION

68

PS/LORD BRABAZON PS/PUS

MR GILLMORE

SIR A WATTS

MR MCLAREN

MR MOSS

MR BLATHERWICK

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