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BRE OF HONG KONG: DRAFT ANNEX ON NATIONALITY
1. The Government of the People's Republic of China declare that all persons born in Hong Kong or Hong Kong (China) having a parent who is a Chinese national, and all persons born outside Hong Kong or Hong Kong (China) having such a parent who was born in Hong Kong or Hong Kong (China) will after 30 June 1997 continue to have Chinese nationality subject to certain limited exceptions provided by law.
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The United Kingdom Government declare that:
(a) All persons who, on 30 June 1997, are British Dependent Territories Citizens (BDTCS) under United Kingdom law by virtue of a connection with Hong Kong will cease to be BDTCS on 1 July 1997, but will retain an appropriate form of British nationality.
(b) No person will acquire BDTC status on or after 1 July 1997 by virtue of a connection with Hong Kong or Hong Kong (China).
[No person born on or after 1 July 1997 will acquire the form of nationality referred to as being appropriate in sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph except by descent from a person who held that form of nationality at the time of the birth. ]
[No person born on or after 1 July 1997 will acquire the form of nationality referred to as being appropriate in sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph unless born of a father or mother who held that form of nationality on 1 July 1997 and at the time of the birth.]
[No person born on or after 1 July 1997 shall acquire the form of nationality referred to as being appropriate in sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph unless born before 1 July 2047 of a father or mother who had that form of nationality on 1 July 1997 and at the time of the birth.]
[No person born on or after 1 July 2007 will acquire the form of nationality referred to as being appropriate in sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph by virtue of descent from a person referred to in that paragraph.]
[No person born on or after 1 July 1997 may acquire British nationality by virtue of descent from a person referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of 'this paragraph.]
3. The following persons shall have the right of abode in Hong Kong
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