Kong BDTCs may retain an
appropriate
status which will
entitle them to continue to use British passports.
The
appropriate status is to be called British National
(Overseas).
Provided those eligible acquire it before 1
July 1997 they may
retain that new status and the
passport that goes with it for life.
required legislation
This agreement
to give
it effect,
and accordingly
year which
an Order in Council was made on 5 June this
introduced
the new status of British National (Overseas)
and conferred on Hong Kong BDTCs the right to acquire it
and to hold a British
passport appropriate
Order comes into effect on 1 July 1987 and
to it.
The
passports
in
the BN (0) status will be issued from that date. BN (0)
status is not transmissible to subsequent generations.
The Order in Council
against
statelessness.
also made provision
provision to guard
› If any Hong Kong BDTC, for
on
whatever reason, does not take up BN (0) status and if on
1 July 1997, when he loses British Dependent Territories
citizenship, he has no other nationality then he
automatically becomes a British Overseas Citizen.
Similarly the children of former Hong Kong BDTCs born
ΟΥ after 1 July 1997 will become BOCs automatically
birth if otherwise they would be stateless.
grandchildren. of former HK BDTCs will be entitled to
registered as BOCs if they are born stateless.
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