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shall on that date cease to be such a citizen.

Right to acquire new status of British National (Overseas)

4.-(1) On and after 1st July 1987 there shall be a new form

of British nationality the holders of which shall be known as

British Nationals (Overseas).

(2) Any person who is a British Dependent Territories

citizen by virtue (wholly or partly) of his having a connection

with Hong Kong and who, but for his having a connection with

Hong Kong, would not be such a citizen shall be entitled, before

1st July 1997 (or before the end of 1997 if born in that year

before that date), to be registered as a British National (Overseas)

and to hold or be included in a passport appropriate to that status.

(3) Any person who, having become a British National

(Overseas) by virtue of paragraph (2) above, ceases at any time

before 1st July 1997 to be a British Dependent Territories citizen

shall at the same time cease to be a British National (Overseas).

Removal of Hong Kong from list of dependent territories

1981

5. On and after 1st July 1997 the British Nationality Act

(a)

shall have effect as if in Schedule 6 to that Act (British

Dependent Territories) the words "Hong Kong" were omitted.

Provisions for reducing statelessness

6.-(1) Where a person ceases on 1st July 1997 by virtue of

Article 3 to be a British Dependent Territories citizen and would,

but for this paragraph, thereby be rendered stateless, he shall

become on that date a British Overseas citizen.

(a)

1981 c.61.

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