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DRAFT HONG KONG (BRITISH NATIONALITY) ORDER 198

9.1.85

1. This Order may be cited as the Hong Kong (British

Nationality) Order 198 and shall come into operation on

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2.-(1) Any person who, immediately before the relevant date

(1st July 1997), is a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue

only of circumstances which give rise to the status of a Hong Kong

belonger for the purposes of the immigration laws of Hong Kong in

force at the time of the making of this Order shall on that date

cease to be such a citizen.

(2) The relevant provisions of the laws of Hong Kong referred

to in paragraph (1) above are contained in the definition of the

expression "Hong Kong belonger" and associated definitions in

section 2(1) of the Immigration Ordinance of Hong Kong

(a), and in

the First Schedule thereto, the texts of which are for convenience

set out in Parts 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 1 to this Order.

3.-(1) Any person who is a British Dependent Territories

citizen by virtue of such circumstances as are mentioned in

Article 2 above shall be entitled, before the relevant date (or,

if born in 1997 before that date, before the end of that year),

be registered as having a form of British nationality to be known

as ["British (Overseas) national"], on application made before the

date specified in paragraph (2) below as being applicable in his

case signifying his intention to acquire that status.

Nin

to

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) above. the date before

which an application signifying a person's intention to become a

(a) Cap.115, Revised Edition 1982 [, amended by ?].

CONFIDENTIAL

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