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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO ID CARDS EXPLAINED
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IS THAT OF ABODE SECRETARY LEGISLATIVE
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO TYPES OF IDENTITY CARD A "PERMANENT IDENTITY CARD" STATES THE HOLDER HAS THE RIGHT IN HONG KONG WHILE AN "IDENTITY CARD" DOES NOT, THE ACTING FOR SECURITY, THE HON ALISTAIR ASPREY, INFORMED THE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
MR ASPREY EXPLAINED THAT ANY PERSON WHO WAS A BRITISH DEPENDENT TERRITORIES CITIZEN BY VIRTUE OF A CONNECTION WITH HONG KONG, AND ANY PERSON WHOLLY OR PARTLY OF CHINESE RACE, REGARDLESS OF NATIONALITY, WHO HAD BEEN RESIDED IN HONG KONG CONTINUOUSLY FOR AT LEAST SEVEN YEARS, WOULD ENJOY THE RIGHT OF ABODE IN HONG KONG.
"A PERSON WHO HAS THE RIGHT OF ABODE IN HONG KONG IS WITH A PERMANENT IDENTITY CARD. A PERSON WHO DOES NOT HAVE THAT IS ISSUED WITH AN IDENTITY CARD," HE SAID IN A WRITTEN REPLY QUESTION FROM THE HON NELLIE FONG.
MR ASPREY SAID A FOREIGN NATIONAL WHO WAS NOT WHOLLY OR OF CHINESE RACE WOULD NOT ENJOY THE RIGHT OF ABODE IN HONG KONG.
ISSUED
RIGHT
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HE POINTED OUT THAT BEFORE THE BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1981 CAME INTO FORCE ON JANUARY 1, 1983, ANY CHILD BORN IN HONG KONG WOULD BECOME A BRITISH DEPENDENT TERRITORIES CITIZEN BY BIRTH, WITH THE RIGHT OF ABODE IN HONG KONG, REGARDLESS OF THE NATIONALITY OF THE PARENTS.
AFTER JANUARY 1, 1983, A CHILD BORN IN HONG NEITHER OF WHOM HAD THE RIGHT OF ABODE IN HONG BRITISH DEPENDENT TERRITORIES CITIZEN ONLY IF AT PARENTS HAD THE RIGHT TO LAND IN HONG KONG OR HAD REMAIN IN HONG KONG UNCONDITIONALLY, HE ADDED.
KONG TO PARENTS, KONG, WOULD BE A LEAST ONE OF THE BEEN
TO PERMITTED
IN PRACTICE, MR ASPREY SAID, THIS WOULD APPLY THE FOLLOWING:
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CHILDREN OF
A BRITISH CITIZEN IN THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT WHO, AS A MATTER OF POLICY, WOULD BE GRANTED UNCONDITIONAL STAY IN HONG KONG;
A BRITISH CITIZEN WHO HAS BEEN ORDINARILY RESIDENT IN HONG KONG CONTINUOUSLY FOR AT LEAST SEVEN YEARS, WHO WILL THEN HAVE THE RIGHT TO LAND IN HONG KONG; OR
ANY OTHER NATIONAL WHO HAS BEEN ORDINARILY RESIDENT IN HONG KONG CONTINUOUSLY FOR AT LEAST NINE YEARS, AND WHO HAS APPLIED FOR AND BEEN GRANTED UNCONDITIONAL STAY IN HONG KONG.
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