British Nationality (Hong Kong)
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Provide for the acquisition of British citizenship by selected Hong A.D. 1990.
Kong residents, their spouses and minor children.
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E IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Secretary of State shall register as British citizens up to 50,000 persons recom- mended to him for that purpose by the Governor of Hong Kong under a scheme or schemes made and approved in accordance with Schedule I to this Act.
(2) No person shall be registered under subsection (1) above after 30th June 1997.
(3) The Secretary of State may by directions given to the Governor limit the number of persons to be recommended to him in any specified period; and any such directions may specify different limits 15 for recommendations in respect of persons of different classes or
descriptions.
(4) Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect for enabling the spouse and minor children of a person registered under subsection (1) above to acquire British citizenship by registration; and no person recom- 20 mended for registration under that Schedule shall be registered under
that subsection.
(5) Neither the Secretary of State nor the Governor shall be required to give any reason for any decision made by him in the exercise of a discretion vested in him by or under this Act and no 25 such decision shall be subject to appeal or liable to be questioned in
any court.
Acquisition of British citizenship.
26 March 1990
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