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SECURITT BFANCH

Question No. 2 (cont'd)

I

Territories

citizenship.

As a result, CUKCS who were connected

with llong Kong (e.g. by birth, naturalisation, or registration)

became BDTCs on 1 January 1983.

British National (Overseas) [ BN(0) 1

The status of BN (O) was created by the enactment of the Hong Kong

(British Nationality) Order 1986 which came into operation on 1

From that date onwards, any person who acquired the

July 1987.

BDTC status by a connection with Hong Kong (e.g. by birth,

naturalisation,

registration

or

adoption)

is entitled to be

registered as a BN(0) and to hold or be included in a passport

appropriate

to

context of the

acquired BN (0)

that status. (It should perhaps be noted in the

answer to Question 1 that

persons

who have

status do not actually lose their BDTCship, until

30 June 1997, but they are not allowed to hold both BDTC and

BN(0) passports at the same time.)

British Overseas Citizen (BOC)

British

Overseas Citizenship

was one of

the three

forms of

citizenship introduced when the BNA 1981 came into effect on 1

January 1983. CUKCS who did not become British citizens or BDTCs

became BOCS.