TRONG KONG
CONFIDENTIAL
Article 101
In line with the Joint Declaration this provides that the SAR may employ British and other nationals, previously serving in the public service or those holding permanent identity cards of the Region, to serve as public servants in government departments at all levels, but only Chinese citizens among permanent residents of the Region with no right of abode in any foreign country may fill certain
senior posts.
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Immigration Ordinance (as at June 1991)
(a)
A Hong Kong permanent resident has the right of abode. This is defined to mean the right (a) to land; (b) not to have imposed any condition of stay; (c) not to have a deportation order made against him; and (d) not to See section have a removal order made against him.
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7. Hong Kong permanent resident means a person who belongs to a class or description of persons specified
in Schedule 1 of the
provides as follows.
1.
the Immigration Ordinance
which
Any person who is wholly or partly of Chinese race and has at any time been ordinarily resident in Hong Kong for a continuous period of not less than 7 years.
2. Any person who is a British Dependent Territories citizen and who--
(a) belongs to a class or description of persons specified in Article 2 of the Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986 (L.N. 233 of 1986) as having a connection with Hong Kong; or
(b) is such a citizen by virtue of his having a connection with any of the British Dependent Territories (other than Hong Kong) mentioned in Schedule 6 to the British Nationality Act 1981 (1981 c. 61 U.K.) and has at any time been married to a person specified in subparagraph (4).
*3. Any person who is a Commonwealth citizen and who immediately before 1 January 1983 had the right to land in Hong Kong by virtue of section 8(1)(a) as then in force.
(Schedule I added 78 of 1982 s. 14. Replaced 31 of 1987 s. 27)
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