§ Mr.Stanbrookasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he proposes to introduce legislation conferring on British nationals overseas rights and privileges under the British Nationality Act 1981 equivalent to those accorded to other categories of British nationality by that Act with regard to qualification for British citizenship.
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§ Mr. WaddingtonIt is intended that a draft of an Order in Council to implement the nationality provisions of the Hong Kong Act 1985 should be put before Parliament with a view to the order itself being made by April 1986. Among other things, the draft order will include provision for British nationals (overseas) to be entitled to be registered as British citizens under section 4 of the British Nationality Act 1981 on the same terms as British dependent territories citizens and other British nationals.