27-6PF-1993
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(5) Where any person is registered (or naturalised) as a British Dependent Territories citizen in accordance with Article 2. after, or less than three months before. the relevant date. the Secretary of State shall register him as a British National (Overseas) in accordance with paragraph (2) above. provided that he applies within three months after the date of his registration (or naturalisation) as a British Dependent Territories citizen.
(6) In this article "the relevant date" in relation to a person whose year of birth falls within one of the entries in column 1 of the Second Schedule to this Order, means the date shown in the corresponding entry in column 2.”.
3. Section 42 of the British Nationality Act 1981 shall be amended so as to add, after subsection (5)|–
"(6) Any person who applies for registration or naturalisation as a British. Dependent Territorics citizen under any provision in this Act by virtue (wholly or partly) of his having a connection with Hong Kong, may be naturalised or registered, as the case may be, if the Secretary of State thinks fit, provided that he satisfies the relevant requirements and that he makes his application on or before 31st March 1966.".
4.-(1) The Schedule to the Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986 shall become the first Schedule to that Order and, as a consequence, in article & for the words "the Schedule" there shall be substituted the words "the first Schedule”.
(2) After the first Schedule to that Order there shall be added the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.
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Clerk of the Privy Council