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Annex B

1.

Definition of 'Hong Kong Permanent Resident'

Schedule I to Immigration Ordinance, Cap 115, Laws of Hong Kong

Any person who is wholly or partly of Chinese race and has at any time been ordinarily resident in Hong Kong for a continuous period of not less than 7 years.

Any person who is a British Dependent Territories citizen and who -

2.

(a)

3.

(b)

belongs to a class or description of persons specified in Article 2 of the Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986 (L.N. 233 of 1986)* as having a connection with Hong Kong; or

is such a citizen by virtue of his having a connection with any of the British Dependent Territories (other than Hong Kong) mentioned in Schedule 6 to the British Nationality Act 1981 (1981 c.61 U.K.) and has at any time been married to a person specified in subparagraph (a).

Any person who is a Commonwealth citizen and who immediately before 1 January 1983 had the right to land in Hong Kong by virtue of section 8(1)(a) as then in force**.

Note

*

**

The principal ways in which a person can acquire a connection with Hong Kong are by birth, adoption, naturalisation, registration, or marriage to a Hong Kong BDTC.

Immediately before 1 January 1983 section 8(1)(a) read as follows -

"8.

Right to land in Hong Kong and to remain free of conditions of stay

(1)

The following persons shall have the right to land in Hong Kong that is to say -

(a)

Hong Kong belongers#, "

[#

"Hong Kong belonger" means a person who -

(a)

immediately before 1 January 1983 was -

(i)

a British subject who was born in Hong Kong;

(ii)

a British subject by naturalisation in Hong Kong;

(iii)

a British subject by registration in Hong Kong under section 7(2) of the British Nationality Act 1948;

(iv)

a British subject married or who had been married to, or was a child of, a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii).]