Correspondence Address:
o Lloyd Path, The Peak,
'onorary President
Douglas Laing, FRCS, FACS, JP,
orary Vice Presidents
SV Gittins, OBE, QC, LLD,
Peter Hall, Esq., FCA,
Dr C J Symons, CBE, LLD,
Executive Committee
EP Ho, Esq., CBE, JP (President)
LC Kotewall, Esq. (Vice President) Michael Tse, Esq. (Hon Treasurer) Miss J A Willis (Hon Secretary)
S M Chum, Esq., ED
JC Fenton, Esq.
Kenneth Lo, Esq., OBE JP,
S J Lowcock. Esq., MBE, JP.
P Stoppa, Esq.
Frank S H Wong Esq.
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The Hon Francis Maude, MP,
The Minister of State,
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London SW1A 2AH.
30 MAY 1990
Dear Mr. Mande,
Hong Kong.
23 May 1990
Mr Paul HD
Grateful for convice odraft
reply please
Sepsinir nauda
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BRITISH NATIONALITY (HONG KONG) BILL 1990
Praver
31/5
I am most grateful for your letter of 15 May in reply to my submission to members of the Select Committee on this Bill, though I am, naturally, disappointed with what you say.
The Eurasian Community here will be extremely distressed to learn that in grouping us with the rest of the ethnic minorities, no account is taken of our blood links with the United Kingdom. Yet the Secretary of State in his winding up speech in the Second Reading debate referred to the importance of international support in this issue. How then would the Commonwealth countries of the Indian Sub-continent
be encouraged to throw a life-line to their kith and kin in Hong Kong, if HMG would give no special cover for the descendents of Britons similarly domiciled here?
Accordingly, I earnestly beseech you to reconsider Our very modest and reasonable request that provision be included in the Bill to permit any HKBDTC who has no other Third Country Citizenship or Nationality and who is directly descended from a person who was :
- born in the United Kingdom; or
naturalised in the United Kingdom; or
- settled and had died in the United Kingdom,
to be registrable as a British Citizen.
Not more than
1000 individuals can benefit
from this
provision, and as explained in my earlier submission, our proposal needs the exerise of discretion by the Governor and the Secretary of State. In substance, it will be no more than what the Dutch, the French and the Portuguese have done in their circumstances except that the numbers involved here
of those assimilated in those
is a minute fraction countries.
three
You
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