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21.
Article 4 (2) enables Hong Kong BDTC who will
lose that citizenship on 1 July 1997 to have an
entitlement to acquire BN (0) status and to hold or be
included in a passport appropriate to that status.
The reference to passports is consistent with the
wording of the United Kingdom Memorandum (see
paragraph 4 above).
22.
Article 4 (3) accords with the terms of the
United Kingdom Memorandum. In order to be eligible
to acquire BN (0) status a person must be a BDTC on 30
June 1997. A person who acquires BN (0) status and
subsequently renounces or is deprived of BDTC status
before 30 June, 1997 will not meet this requirement,
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and cannot therefore retain BN (0) status beyond that
date.
Removal of Hong Kong from
List of Dependent Territories
23.
Article 5 deletes Hong Kong from the list of
British Dependent Territories in Schedule 6 to the
Brtish Nationality Act 1981 as from 1 July 1997.