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The Immigration (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 1987

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The main object of the Bill is to amend the principal Ordinance to introduce the term "right of abode in Hong Kong" and to accord that right to a new category of people called "Hong Kong permanent residents", defined to include now "Hong Kong belongers" or The Bill is complementary to Persons (Amendment) Bill 1987, come into force on 1 July 1987.

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all persons who are "Chinese residents". the Registration of both of which will

Clause 2 of the Bill introduces a number of section of the

amendments to the interpretation

Ordinance.

These include

(a)

inserting a

new term "Hong Kong

permanent resident" and defining it by referring to the new First Schedule (clause 27). The new

to

include "Hong Kong

"Chinese

residents"

term is defined

belongers" and

as presently

the existing

defined;

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

consequently deleting

definitions of "Hong Kong belonger" and "Chinese resident";

re-defining "immigrant" to mean anyone who is not a Hong Kong permanent resident. This new definition of "immigrant" draws a clear distinction between, on the one hand, persons who have the right of abode. in Hong Kong and, on the other, all others who do

not have that right;

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removing certain references to January 1983 which were originally introduced prior to that date but are no longer needed in that form with commencement of the British Nationality Act 1981;

the

revising the definition of "resident United Kingdom belonger" to make it clear that such

such status must have been obtained prior to 1 January 1983 as after that date the relevant status is that of a "resident British citizen". Introducing a minor amendment to the definition of "United Kingdom belonger" the existing anomaly regarding wives and children of persons who were citizens of the United Kingdom

to

remove

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