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SCHEDULE
SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS
Preliminary
Section 2(2)
In this Schedule "the relevant date" means 1st July
1997 and "enactment" means any enactment, other than this Act,
passed before the relevant date and includes any instrument made
before that date under any such enactment.
Nationality
2.-(1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council make
provision whereby
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(a) persons who immediately before the relevant date are
British Dependent Territories citizens by virtue only
of a connection with Hong Kong will on that date
cease to be such citizens; and
(b) persons who are such citizens by virtue of a
(2)
connection with Hong Kong may before that date
(or, if born/before that date in 1997, before the end
of that year) acquire such other form of British
nationality as is specified in the Order.
An Order under this paragraph may require
applications for the new status mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b)
above to be made before such time or times as are specified in
the Order and may make provision whereby that status is to be
held on and after the relevant date only by persons who cease to
be British Dependent Territories citizens on that date by virtue of
an Order under this paragraph.