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DRAFT

WHITE PAPER ON THE DRAFT HONG KONG

(BRITISH NATIONALITY) ORDER 1986.

INTRODUCTION

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Annex

1.

The Hong Kong Act 1985 (C.15) received Royal

Assent on 4 April 1985. It made provision for the

ending of British sovereignty and jurisdiction over

Hong Kong on 1 July 1997, in accordance with the

terms of the Joint Declaration on the question of

Hong Kong reached between Her Majesty's Government

and the Government of the People's Republic of China

(hereafter 'the Chinese Government'). Paragraph 2 of

the Schedule to the Act conferred power to give

effect by Order in Council to the provisions of the

United Kingdom Memorandum associated with the Joint

Declaration. The purpose of this White Paper is to

present the text of a draft Order in Council, which

is at Annex 1.