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(d)
Nationality and Passports
13.
in
people of
under the
Following debates
Order in
made was Council Hong Kong an
of terms
the Hong Kong Act 1985.
Parliament and consultation
with
with the
on 5
June
1986
Lose that status on connection with Hong Kong, to
1 July 1997 but
new status,
to be known to be entitled to acquire before that date a
for
persons who are British Dependent Territories citizens, by virtue of
a
This
provides
as
British National (Overseas),
recording
against
that
status.
also
statelessness.
It
Territories
citizens, who
A also be
automatically to
acquired BN (0) status and if they would otherwise be stateless.
children of former Hong Kong BDTCs born
Overseas British
otherwise stateless.
will be entitled
to
The grandchildren of former Hong Kong BOTCS be registered as British Overseas citizens
together with a British passport
The Order
provision to guard
provides for any British Dependent
Lose that status
1 on
July 1997,
become British Overseas citizens if they have
makes
not
The
on or after that date will
citizens automatically
at
birth, if
born stateless.
British
into effect on 1 July 1987
Will National (Overseas)
assports
be issued
14.
The Order will come
bearing the
of status
from that date.
15.
During the
passage
of
the
Order through
Parliament
Her
Majesty's Government took into
into careful consideration three specific
of Hong Kong:
that the
an endorsement to the effect that
requests made by the Legislative Council passports of BN (0)s should contain visas or entry certificates were not required for visits to the UK: that ex-World War II service veterans in Hong Kong should be granted
British
and that ethnic minority (i.e. non-Chinese)
granted British citizenship.
citizenship:
be
or SO
service veterans
BDTCs should also
Her Majesty's Government agreed the passport endorsement request in futt -
not eligible, and majority of the 270 the British Nationality Act 1981 for registration as Br
However the Government agreed to consider sympathetical applications from the 60 or so eligible for British citizenship and admitted to the UK far
citizens.
agreed
that
of
the
270
could
be
Her Majesty's Government
any settlement together with their dependants.
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