CONFIDENTIAL
SCHEDULE: PARAGRAPH TWO: NATIONALITY
NOTE ON AMENDMENT
Lord Avebury
Page 2 line 33
Insert at end
("(5) An Order made under this paragraph shall make provision for a
British National (Overseas) who cannot claim citizenship of any
other country to be entitled
to be registered as a British Citizen
if an application is made for his registration as such a citizen.")
Actual Text
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 a new form of British nationality the holders
of which shall be known as British Nationals (Overseas).
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 to be held on and
after the relevant date only be persons who are British Dependent
Territoriescitizens immediately before that date.
(2)
is
(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
including provisions amending the British Nationality Act 1981 and
any other enactment.
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