16.
CONFIDENTIAL
Article 2(1)(f) establishes a connection for women
who became BDTCs by marriage in the circumstances set out in
section 23(1)(c) of the British Nationality Act 1981. This
provides that a woman who was a CUKC immediately before
1 January 1983 became a BDTC on that date if she was then,
or had at any time been the wife of a man who became a
BDTC on 1 January 1983, or who would have done so but for
his death.
17.
Article 2(2) defines the terms naturalisation and
registration in paragraph (1).
18.
Article 2(3) provides that children born in Hong
Kong on or after 1 January 1983 shall not be regarded as
having a connection with Hong Kong if their parents were
only there temporarily, or if neither of them was a Hong
Kong BDTC. It conforms with the way in which BDTC citizen-
ship is acquired at birth under the British Nationality
Act 1981. The same provision cannot be made for persons
born before 1983: prior to 1983, birth in Hong Kong was
in itself sufficient to confer citizenship of the United
Kingdom and Colonies, and thus to establish a clear
connection with Hong Kong irrespective of the nationality
or immigration status of the parents.
Loss of British Dependent Territories citizenship
19.
Article 3 provides for those people identified under
Article 2(1) as BDTCs by virtue of a connection with Hong
Kong to lose that citizenship on 1 July 1997. But it does
not affect those persons who can establish an independent
route to BDT citizenship by an exclusive connection with
another Dependent Territory. Such people will not come
within Article 3(b), and will therefore automatically be
excepted from loss of their BDT citizenship. Examples of
such a
person are:
a)
A person born after 1 January 1983 in
Bangkok to a father who was born in Hong Kong
and a mother who was born in Gibraltar;
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