TNAG-2161-FCO40-3083-Hong-Kong-visa-abolition-agreements-1990 — Page 106

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At a meeting of the relevant authorities in 'Brussels on 22 May

1990 it was proposed to set up a tripartite working group in

order to formulate an agreement between Belgium, France and the

UK about the operation of frontier controls on

on international Channel Tunnel

Tunnel through trains. The text may refer to the disposal of persons who, having boarded the train in Belgium, are refused leave to enter the UK.

The return to Belgium of certain classes of person refused entry to the UK is governed by a Visa Abolition Agreement dated 1 April 1960 (Cmnd. 1091). Although expressed in terms now made obsolete by the passage of time (and the British Nationality Act 1981) this agreement is still valid and seems likely to remain so. These days it applies mainly to holders of Hong Kong passports. The extent to which its provisions should be

be changed and incorporated or referred to in a Channel Tunnel agreement with the Belgians has yet to be decided. You advised me, however, that B2 Division of IND (in consultation with IS) would be principally responsible in the Home Office for giving this question consideration. On the FCO side you felt that Migration and Visa Department and Nationality and Treaty Department would wish to participate. Chris Whomersley, Assistant Legal Adviser FCO is currently in the lead drafting the English text of the UK/Belgo-French agreement. I shall be involved in that as Chairman of the UK Policing and Frontier Controls Working Group of the Intergovernmental Commission and as a coordinator of Home Office interests.

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