HC Deb 29 June 1993 vol 227 c429W
Sir Ivan Lawrence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what arrangements he has made to allow applicants for British national (overseas) status in Hong Kong to continue to hold a British dependent territories citizen passport when they are registered as British national (overseas) status.

Mr. Charles Wardle

We have agreed with the Hong Kong Government that the following arrangements will come into effect on 1 July:

  1. (i) A person registered as a British national (Overseas) (BN(O)) who has a British dependent territories citizen (BDTC) passport which is valid until 30 June 1997 may retain it when issued with his BN(O) passport.
  2. (ii) A BN(O) applicant who wishes to have a new BDTC passport as well as a BN(O) passport must pay the prescribed fees for both the BDTC and BN(O) passports.
  3. (iii) The fee for a BDTC passport will be the same for all applicants regardless of when the passport is issued.
  4. (iv) An existing BN(O) who gave up his BDTC passport when registering as a BN(O) and who wishes to re-acquire a BDTC passport may do so on payment of the appropriate BDTC passport fee.

All BDTC passports will, of course, expire on 30 June 1997.