TNAG-1624-FCO40-2238-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-China-1987 — Page 80

PART I

Commencement, Citation and Interpretation

1. This Order shall come into operation on [

1987, and may be cited as the Foreign Compensation (People's Republic of China) Order 1987.

2.

In this Order:-

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"Bond" means a bond or other document of title in respect of a loan or obligation issued or guaranteed before 1st October 1949 by a former government of China or any part thereof or by any other public authority in China.

"British national" means:-

(a) any individual who was at the material time a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, a British subject by virtue of sections 2, 13 or 16 of the British Nationality Act 1948 (a) or the British Nationality Act 1965 (b), or a British protected person within the meaning of the said Act of 1948; except that any individual who was a British subject at any time before the date of the commencement of the said Act of 1948 only by virtue of the provisions of the Act of 1705(c), intituled "An Act for the Naturalization of the Most Excellent Princess Sophia Electress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover and the Issue of Her Body", shall be deemed not to be a

British national;

(b)

any corporation, firm or association incorporated or constituted under the laws in force in the United Kingdom or in any territory for whose international relations Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom were, at the material time,

responsible;

(a) 1948 c.56.

(c)

1705 c.14.

(b)

1965 c.34.