Home Secretary's speech did not mention witholding of passports for
a second Tranche. Has this been dropped?
Selection of citizenship recipients will operate in two
tranches. The majority of places will be distributed in the first
tranche, as quickly as administrative processes in Hong Kong permit.
A second tranche (about 13% of the overall total) will be reserved
for allocation nearer to 1997, to cater for those who would by then
have moved into key positions, and to give any who had failed to
secure a place in the first round a second chance.
The powers to arrange selection in this way are set out in
Clause 1(3) of the Bill: (which gives the Home Secretary the power
to "limit the number of persons to be recommended to him in any
specified").
DAWADH
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