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Evidence.

PART IV

SUPPLEMENTAL

SCHEDULES

Schedule 1: Requirements as respects applications.

Schedule 2: Requirements as respects declarations of renunciation.

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 41(1) and (3)

(a) of the British Nationality Act 1981 I hereby make the following

,

Regulations:-

PART I

GENERAL

Citation and commencement

1.

These Regulations may be cited as the British Nationality

(Hong Kong) Regulations 1986 and shall come into operation on

1st July 1987.

Interpretation

2.-(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise

requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby

assigned to them, that is to say

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"the Act" means the British Nationality Act 1981;

"applicant" in relation to an application made on behalf

of a person not of full age or capacity means that person;

"High Commissioner" means, in relation to a country

mentioned in Schedule 3 to the Act, the High Commissioner

(a) 1981 c.61; section 41 was amended by the Hong Kong (British

Nationality) Order 1986, Article 7(4) (S.I. 1986/948).

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