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SCHEDULE

SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS

Preliminary

Section 2(2)

1.

In this Schedule "the relevant date" means 1st July

1997 and "enactment" means any enactment, other than this Act, passed before the relevant date and includes any instrument made before that date under any such enactment.

Nationality

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2.-(1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council make

provision whereby

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(a) persons who immediately before the relevant date are British Dependent Territories citizens by virtue only

of a connection with Hong Kong will on that date cease to be such citizens; and

(b) persons who are such citizens by virtue of a

(2)

connection with Hong Kong may before that date (or, if born/before that date in 1997, before the end of that year) acquire such other form of British nationality as is specified in the Order.

An Order under this paragraph may require

applications for the new status mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b) above to be made before such time or times as are specified in the Order and may make provision whereby that status is to be held on and after the relevant date only by persons who cease to be British Dependent Territories citizens on that date by virtue of an Order under this paragraph.

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ن فرح سلام

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