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The
Obligations
International
Protocol
relating to Military
in certain cases of Double Nationality ('the
Protocol') supplements the Convention on Certain Questions
relating to the
Conflict of Nationality Laws and was also
concluded at the Hague on 12 April 1930. It entered into
force on 25 May 1937 (text at Annex C). The Protocol
provides for a person possessing two or more nationalities,
who habitually resides in one of the countries whose
nationality he possesses, and who is, in fact, most closely
connected with that country, to be exempt from all military
obligations in
the other country or countries (Article 1).
If
a person possesses the nationality of two or more States
and has the right, on attaining his majority, to renounce
or decline the nationality of a State, he shall be exempt
from military service
in such State during his minority
(Article 2).
A person who has lost the nationality of a
State and has acquired another nationality, shall be exempt
from military obligations in the State of which he has lost
the nationality (Article 3).
The United Kingdom ratified the Protocol without
reservation on 14 January 1932. The ratification included
Hong Kong
(reference
at Annex D). Under Article 10, the
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Protocol is open to accession by any Member of the League
of Nations and any non-Member State mentioned in Article 8.
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