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In addition to the square bracketed material, we shall also

need more information about

(a)

(b)

judicial review in Hong Kong;

the rights of British citizens to live and work in Hong

Kong under local immigration law. Clearly, we should

not register 50,000 HK BDTC's as British citizens and

then discover that they have thereby lost their automatic

right under local law to live and work in Hong Kong.

You said you would pursue this in Hong Kong.

Although I do not think we need trouble the Law Officers with

the general package of proposals, it would, in my view, be prudent

to consult them in relation to whatever provision is included to

deal with the exclusion of judicial review (given that the Law

Officers have given advice in the past to the Prime Minister about

the difficulty of producing legislation which excludes the

jurisdiction of the courts).

Land Seymo

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(D SEYMOUR)

25th January 1990