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"resident British citizen" means any
person who
ami
GF 323
(1971 c.77.)
:
(a) is a British citizen; or
(b) is or becomes a British citizen
and who immediately before
1 January 1983 was a citizen of
the United Kingdom and Colonies
having the right of abode in the
United Kingdom under the
Immigration Act 1971,
and has at any time been ordinarily
resident in Hong Kong, either as a
British citizen or partly as a
United Kingdom belonger and partly
as a British citizen, for a continuous
period of not less than 7 years;
"settled" has the same meaning as it has
in the 1981 Act;";
(b) by deleting the definition of "alien";
(c) by deleting the definition of "British
protected person";
(d) in the definition of "British subject by
naturalization in Hong Kong" by inserting
before "means" the following
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