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Definition of 'Hong Kong Permanent Resident'

Immigration Ordinance Cap 115

Schedule 1

Annex A

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 citizen and who -

is a

British

(a)

Dependent Territories

3.

belongs to a class OF description of persons specified in Article 2 of the Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986 (I..N. 233 of 1986) * having a connection with Hong Kong; or

a

(b)

is such connection Territories

Schedule

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as

citizen by virtue of his having a with any of the British Dependent

(other than Hong Kong) mentioned in to the Brit ish Nationality Act 1981 (1981 c.61 U.K.) and has at any time been married to a person specified in subparagraph (a).

Any person who is સ 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**.

Note

*

The principal ways in which a person can acquire connection with Hong Kong are by birth, adoption, naturalisation, registration, or marriage to Kong BDTC.

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Immediately before 1 1 January 1983 section 8(1)(a) read as follows

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8. Right to land in Hong Kong and to remain free of

conditions of stay

(1) The following persons shall have the right to

land in Hong Kong that is to say --

(a) Hong Kong belongers#,".

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