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Section 2(2).

1981 c. 61.

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Hong Kong

SCHEDULE

SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS

Preliminary

1. In this Schedule "the relevant date" means 1st July 1997 and enactment means any provision of an Act, other than this Act, 5 passed before the relevant date and any provision of an instrument made before that date under any such Act.

Nationality

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

(a) British Dependent Territories citizenship cannot be retained or acquired on or after the relevant date by virtue of a connection with Hong Kong; and

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(b) persons who are British Dependent Territories citizens by

virtue of any such connection may before that date (or before 15 the end of 1997 if born in that year before the relevant date) acquire a new form of British nationality the holders of which shall be known as British Nationals (Overseas).

(2) An Order under this paragraph may require applications in respect of the new status mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b) above to 20 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 are British Dependent Territories citizens immediately before that date.

(3) An Order under this paragraph may make provision for the 25 avoidance of statelessness and may contain such supplementary, transitional and consequential provisions as appear to Her Majesty to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the Order, including provisions amending the British Nationality Act 1981 and any other enactment.

(4) No Order shall be made under this paragraph unless a draft of it has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

Adaptation of law

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3.-(1) Her Majesty may before the relevant date by Order in 35 Council make such provision as appears to Her Majesty to be necessary or expedient in consequence of or in connection with the provisions of section 1(1) of this Act—

(a) for repealing or amending any enactment so far as it is part of

the law of Hong Kong; and

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(b) for enabling the legislature of Hong Kong to repeal or amend any enactment so far as it is part of that law and to make laws having extra-territorial operation.