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and in the United Kingdom. Your Petitioners consider that
appropriate time at which
this is accordingly an
to
determine how their aim (if
its virtue is accepted) can
best be achieved.
3.
The Petition will
(i) set out what will be the relevant legal
position of the Hong Kong Indians at the Transfer Date
(ii) analyse the deficiencies in that position
claim to
(iii) expound the basis for the Hong Kong Indians'
British citizenship and right of abode in the
light of those deficiencies and otherwise
(iv) refer to the position of the other persons
referred to in paragraph 1 hereof.
4.
Transfer
The legal position of the Hong Kong Indians at the
Date is to be derived from the following
instruments:
(i) The joint
declaration
of the
Government of
the United Kingdom and the Government of the People's
Republic of China on the question of Hong Kong signed in
Peking on the 19th December 1984 ("the Joint Declaration")
and the accompanying memoranda ("the Memoranda").
(ii) The Hong Kong Act 1985 ("the Act").
(iii) The draft Hong Kong (British
Order 1986 ("the Order")
Nationality)
on the assumption that it is
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