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doubts that the Joint Declaration and article 24 (2)(6) of

the Basic Law guarantees the ethnic minorities right of

abode in Hong Kong if they do not have a right of abode

elsewhere. The Chinese authorities have said that they are

keen that people in Hong Kong of non-Chinese race should

remain there. They have also said that ethnic minorities

can apply for Chinese citizenship as well as Hong Kong

Special Administrative Region passports after the change of

sovereignty.

b)

loss of nationality after third generation the Government

cannot give indefinite rights to transmit nationality from

one generation to the next especially where the territory

in question

non-British. Even British citizenship

cannot normally be passed down beyond the first two

generations

born abroad.

[There are registration

entitlements for the second generation born abroad but

these depend upon residential links with the UK.] Adoption

of Chinese citizenship is the most obvious course out of

(to buckground,

rather been

live to take?) statelessness should it arise.

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c) BN(0)/BOC passports second rate these passports are

-accepted around the world; holders do not

not need entry

clearance for admission to the UK (unless they are seeking

admission for a purpose, eg. settlement, for which entry

clearance is mandatory); they give holders an entitlement

to registration as British citizens providing they have

minorities nave to compete with each other for a place.