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The Pitcairn Landing and Residence (Amendment)

Ordinance 1983 came into operation on 12 October 1982 with

the provision that Sections 2 and 4 came into operation

on the date of commencement of the British Nationality Act.

Anyone,, irrespective of nationality or status, may enter

Pitcairn for temporary purposes subject to the issue of a

permit by the Island Magistrate. Any British Dependent

Territories Citizen (BDTC) who did not qualify under Section

8 of the Landing and Residence (Amendment) Ordinance 1982

(ie those without the appropriate qualifying connection

with Pitcairn), would have no right of entry for settlement.

HONG KONG

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4. The Hong Kong Government have passed four ordinances since the BNA 1981 was given Royal Assent the Immigration (Amendment) Ordinances Nos 2 and 3 of 1982; the British

Nationality Act 1981 (Consequential Amendments) Orinance

1982; and the British Nationality (Miscellaneous Provisions)

(Amendment) Ordinance 1982. These were all approved by

the Executive Council of Hong Kong on 30 November 1982

and have since been passed by the Legislative Council.

They are:

(a) The purpose of the Immigration (Amendments) Ordinance

(No 2) 1982 was to amend the principal Ordinance to .

specify which British Dependent Territories Citizens

will have the status of 'Hong Kong belonger' ie persons

having the right to land in Hong Kong and to remain

free of conditions to stay and who can not be deported

for any reason. It also provided for the introduction

of the new terminology used in the BNA 1981.

(b) The Immigration (Amendment) Ordinance (No 3).1982

introduced provisions, to subject persons born in