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FUNCTIONS TO BE TRANSFERRED IN JANUARY 1997

Registration as BC under the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990 [Item (9) of Appendix]

Time Schedule

Workload

Item

Type of Applications

for

transfer Section Concerned of function

1991/92 1996/97

1.

Registration as BCs under

My

S.1(4) of British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990 applications from spouses and minor children.

Jan 1997

British Nationality Division (BN)

114

424 (Note 1)

2.

Registration as BCs under

Jan 1997

BN

494

S.1(1) of British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990 -

100 (Note 2)

-

SSC applications.

Annex

Estimated volume Time schedule

Volume of paper files

of paper files

at present and upon transfer and space taken up space taken up

and place for

transfer of

records

)

51,500

54m2

UK Home Office (Transfer details

to be discussed nearer to Jan 1997.)

Notes: (1) Workload is estimated on the following assumptions :-

(a) The present application rate of spouse/child(ren) applying separately under Section 1(4) i.e. 6.4% will continue.

(b) Applications under Section 1(4) will be spread evenly during the period from 1993/94 to 1996/97.

(c) Estimated workload for 1996/97 :

=

[

total no. of quota x spouse/child(ren) application rate

V

= [

total no. of spouse/child(ren) applications received up to 28 Feb 1993 ] ÷ 4 50,000 X 6.4% 1,504 ] ÷ 4

424

(2) A guesstimated figure only as the no. of invitations to be issued by the Governor is unknown at this stage.

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