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on 1 July 1997, and whe will heree be entitled to acquire
BN (0) status.
10.
Article 2(1) defines for the purposes of the Order
those people who are to be taken as having a connection
with Hong Kong. It encompasses all the Hong Kong BDTCs
listed in Annex 2. Specifically, such people include
all those who fall within paragraphs 11 to 17 below.
11.
Article 2(1)(a) concerns BDTCs born, naturalised or
registered in Hong Kong or found abandoned there as
newborn infants or their children. Anyone born in Hong Kong
before 1983, or naturalised or registered there before that
date, became a BDTC on 1 January 1983 under the British
Nationality Act 1981. Article 2(1)(a) read in conjunction
date,
with Article 2(3) is so framed as to ensure that a BDTC
born in Hong Kong on or after 1 January 1983 will not lose
his BDTC status in 1997 if neither parent is at the time
of the birth settled in Hong Kong or a Hong Kong BDTC. For
example, a child born in Hong Kong on or after 1 January
1983 to parents who are Gibraltarians and who are in Hong
Kong temporarily will not lose his BDTC status in 1997 just
because of his birth in Hong Kong. (See also paragraph 18).
12.
Article 2(1)(b) concerns people who became BDTCs
Hong Kong through adoption by parents who are BDTCS.
TCs. This provision
accords with the provision for acquisition of BDTC status
by adoption under the British Nationality Act 1981 whereby
a child adopted in a Dependent Territory becomes. a BDTC if
the adopter or, in the case of joint adoption, one of the
adopters is a a BDTC. This article is therefore so framed as
to include all those people at least one of whose adoptive
parents is a British Dependent Territories citizen by
virtue of a connection with Hong Kong, irrespective of where
the adoption actually took place.
13.
Article 2(1)(c) is concerned with people registered
outside Hong Kong. Registration may have taken place
outside Hong Kong on the basis of a connection with Hong
Kong, since certain of the registration provisions contained
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