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ANNEX 1
DRAFT HONG KONG (BRITISH NATIONALITY) ORDER
Citation, commencement and extent
1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986 and shall come into operation on 1 July 1987.
(2) This Order extends to Northern Ireland.
(3) This Order extends to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and to all dependent territories.
Connections with Hong Kong
2.—(1) For the purposes of this Order a person shall be taken to have a con- nection with Hong Kong if—
(a) subject to paragraph (3) below, he, his father or his mother was born, naturalised or registered in Hong Kong or found abandoned there as a newborn infant; or
(b) he, his father or his mother was adopted (whether or not in Hong Kong) and the adopter or, in the case of a joint adoption, one of the adopters was at the time of the adoption a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of his having a connection with Hong Kong as specified in this Article; or
(c) he, his father or his mother was registered outside Hong Kong on an
application based (wholly or partly) on any of the following:-
(i) residence in Hong Kong;
(ii) descent from a person born in Hong Kong;
(iii) descent from a person naturalised, registered or settled in Hong
Kong (whether before or after the birth of the person registered); (iv) descent from a person adopted (whether or not in Hong Kong) in
the circumstances specified in sub-paragraph (b) above;
(v) marriage to a person who is a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of his having a connection with Hong Kong as specified in this Article or would have been so but for his death or renunciation of citizenship;
(vi) Crown service under the government of Hong Kong;
(vii) where citizenship has been renounced and subsequently resumed,
birth, naturalisation or registration in Hong Kong; or
(d) at the time of his birth his father or mother was settled in Hong Kong;
or
(e) his father or mother was born to a parent who at the time of the birth was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of his having a connection with Hong Kong as specified in this Article; or (f) being a woman, she was married before 1 January 1983 to a person who is a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of his having a con- nection with Hong Kong as specified in this Article or would have been so but for his death.
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