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VIRTUE OF ANY OF A1 15 ABOVE BUT WHO HAD RENOUNCED BDTC: OR

WHO WOULD HAVE BECOME SUCH A BDTC BUT FOR HIS HAVING

RENOUNCED CUKC.

20(3)

14. A PERSON BORN IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY WITHIN 5 YEARS OF THE

COMMENCEMENT OF THE BNA 1981 AND REGISTERED AS A BDTC ON AN APPLICATION MADE WITHIN 12 MONTHS OF THE BIRTH, AND WHOSE FATHER, GRANDFATHER OR GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS BORN, NATURALISED OR REGISTERED IN HONG KONG. (SECTION 21 BNA 1981)

15. A PERSON REGISTERED AS A BDTC ON THE GROUNDS THAT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE 1 JANUARY 1983 HE WOULD IF HE HAD APPLIED BEEN ENTITLED TO BE REGISTERED UNDER SECTION 1 OF THE BNA 1964 (RESUMPTION) AS A CUKC BY VIRTUE OF HAVING AN APPROPRIATE QUALIFYING CONNECTION

WITH

HONG KONG OR IF A WOMAN BY VIRTUE OF HAVING BEEN MARRIED BEFORE 1 JANUARY 1983 TO A PERSON WHO HAS, OR WOULD IF LIVING, HAVE HAD SUCH A CONNECTION. (SECTION 22(1) BNA 1981)

(A PERSON HAS A QUALIFYING CONNECTION WITH HONG KONG FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION IF HE, HIS FATHER OR FATHER'S FATHER WAS BORN, REGISTERED OR NATURALISED IN HONG KONG).

16. A PERSON REGISTERED AS A BDTC ON THE GROUNDS HAD HE HAD BEFORE 1 JANUARY 1983 CEASED TO BE A CUKC AS THE RESULT OF A DECLARATION OF RENUNCIATION AND HAD AN APPROPRIATE QUALIFYING CONNECTION WITH HONG KONG OR IF A WOMAN BY VIRTUE OF HAVING BEEN MARRIED BEFORE 1 JANUARY 1983 TO A PERSON WHO HAS, OR WOULD IF LIVING, HAVE HAD SUCH A CONNECTION. (SECTION 22(2) BNA 1981) (A PERSON HAS A QUALIFYING CONNECTION WITH HONG KONG IF HE, HIS FATHER OR FATHER'S FATHER WAS BORN, REGISTERED OR NATURALISED IN HONG KONG).

17. A PERSON WHO WAS A BDTC BY REASON OF HIS BIRTH, ADOPTION, NATURALISATION OR REGISTRATION IN HONG KONG BY REASON OF ONE OF HIS PARENTS BEING BORN, ADOPTED, NATURALISED OR REGISTERED IN HONG KONG AND WHO HAD CEASED TO BE A BDTC AS THE RESULT OF A DECLARATION OF RENUNCIATION OF BDTC'SHIP, BUT SUBSEQUENTLY REGISTERED AS A BDTC. (SECTION 24 BNA 1981)

18. A PERSON BORN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AFTER 1 JANUARY 1983 WHO IS A BDTC ON THE GROUNDS THAT HE WOULD OTHERWISE BE STATELESS AND

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