a BDTC or settled in the dependent territories (i.e. ordinarily -resident without being subject to any restriction on the period for which he/she may remain), This is a significant departure from the present law which is that any child (other than the issue of accredited diplomats and enemy aliens) born in the dependent territories is t automatically a citizen (CUKC);
a new-born foundling in the dependent territories whose parents are unknown will, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be a BDTC; a child born outside the dependent territories to a BDTC who is in Crown service under the Government of a dependent territory will be a BDTC subject to recruitment having taken place in a dependent territory;
a child born in the dependent territories who is not automatically a BDTC will be entitled to be registered as a BDTC
(A) if, while he or she is a
minor, either parent becomes a BDTC or settled in a dependent territory. This means that a child born in Hong Kong to, for example, a legal immigrant from China will be entitled to BDTC when either parent becomes settled in Hong Kong, 1.e. normally after seven years' residence;
(B)
at any time after he attains the age of ten if he has lived in one dependent territory for the first ten years of his life; absences. up to 90 days per year being disregarded. For example, the
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Hong Kong born child of any person who is subject to a condition of stay would, if he lived in Hong Kong for the first ten years of: his life, be entitled to BDTC;
by descent. A child born outside the dependent territories will be a BDTC if at the time, of birth a parent is a BDTC otherwise than by. descent. (In general this means that a parent
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