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WHILE HIS OR HER PARENTS WERE TEMPORARILY ABSENT IS REGARDED AS
HAVING A CONNECTION WITH HONG KONG FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE ORDER.
BUT THE CHILD OF HONG KONG BDTCS WHO HAVE LEFT HONG KONG
PERMANENTLY TO SETTLE ELSEWHERE, AND ARE THEREFORE NO LONGER
SETTLED IN HONG KONG, IS NOT REGARDED AS HAVING SUCH A
CONNECTION.
16.
ARTICLE 2(1)(E) ESTABLISHES A GRANDPARENTAL CONNECTION WHICH
IS NECESSARY TO ACCORD WITH THE WAY IN WHICH BDT CITIZENSHIP WAS ACQUIRED ON 1 JANUARY 1983 UNDER THE BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT
1981.
17. ARTICLE 2(1)(F) ESTABLISHES THE CONNECTION OF WHO BECAME
BDTCS BY MARRIAGE IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES SET OUT IN SECTION
23(1)(C) OF THE BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1981.
18. ARTICLE 2(2) DEFINES THE TERM REGISTRATION IN PARAGRAPH (1).
NATURALISATION SPEAKS FOR ITSELF, BUT IF THE TERM 'REGISTERED'
WERE LEFT UNDEFINED THERE COULD BE SOME DOUBT WHETHER IT INCLUDED
REGISTRATION AS A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND COLONIES
UNDER THE BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1948.
19. ARTICLE 2(3) PROVIDES THAT CHILDREN BORN IN HONG KONG ON OR
AFTER 1 JANUARY 1983 TO PARENTS WHO WERE THERE ONLY TEMPORARILY
SHALL NOT BE REGARDED AS HAVING A CONNECTION WITH HONG KONG. IT
CONFORMS WITH THE WAY IN WHICH BDT CITIZENSHIP IS ACQUIRED AT
BIRTH UNDER THE BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1981. THE SAME PROVISION
CANNOT BE MADE FOR PERSONS BORN BEFORE 1983, SINCE SETTLEMENT WAS
NOT AN ISSUE UNDER THE BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1948. PRIOR TO
1983 BIRTH IN HONG KONG WAS IN ITSELF SUFFICIENT TO CONFER
CITIZENSHIP OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND COLONIES, AND THUS TO
ESTABLISH A CLEAR CONNECTION WITH HONG KONG IRRESPECTIVE OF THE
NATIONALITY OR IMMIGRATION STATUS OF THE PARENTS.
LOSS OF BRITISH DEPENDENT TERRITORIES CITIZENSHIP
20.
ARTICLE 3 PROVIDES FOR THOSE PEOPLE PREVIOUSLY DEFINED AS
BDTCS BY VIRTUE OF A CONNECTION WITH HONG KONG TO LOSE THAT
CITIZENSHIP ON 1 JULY 1997. BUT IT EXCLUDES THOSE PERSONS WHO
CAN ESTABLISH AN INDEPENDENT ROUTE TO BDT CITIZENSHIP BY A
CONNECTION WITH ANOTHER DEPENDENT TERRITORY. SUCH PEOPLE WILL
NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENT OF ARTICLE 3(B), AND WILL THEREFORE
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