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SCHEDULE: PARAGRAPH TWO: NATIONALITY

NOTE ON AMENDMENT

Lord Avebury

Page 2 line 33

Insert at end

("(5) An Order made under this paragraph shall make provision for a

British National (Overseas) who cannot claim citizenship of any

other country to be entitled

to be registered as a British Citizen

if an application is made for his registration as such a citizen.")

Actual Text

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

(b) persons who are British Dependent Territories citizens by

virtue of any such connection may before that date (or before

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).

An Order under this paragraph may require applications in

respect of 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 to be held on and

after the relevant date only be persons who are British Dependent

Territoriescitizens immediately before that date.

(2)

is

(3) An Order under this paragraph may make provision for the

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.

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