5. SCHEDULE
PARAGRAPH TWO: NATIONALITY
NOTES ON AMENDMENTS
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Mr J Enoch Powell
Mr Denis Healey
Mr George Robertson
Mr Donald Anderson
Mr George Foulkes
Schedule, page 2, line 9, leave out paragraph 2.
ACTUAL TEXT
NATIONALITY
2.-(1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council make provision whereby-
(a) British Dependent Territories citizenship cannot be retained or acquired on or after the relevant date by virtue of a connection
with Hong Kong; and
(b) persons who are British Dependent Territories citizens by virtue of any such connection may before that date (or before the
end of 1997 if born in that year before the relevant date) acquire
such new form of British nationality as is specified in the Order.
(2) An Order under this paragraph may require applications in respect of 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 are British Dependent
Territories citizens immediately before that date.
(3) An Order under this paragraph may make provision for the
avoidance of statelessness and may contain such supplementary,
transitional and consequential provisions as appear to Her Majesty to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the Order,
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