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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-general-and-hong-kong-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3137",
  "legislation_title": "The British Nationality (General and Hong Kong) (Amendment) Regulations 2007",
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  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment of the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Regulations 1986",
  "text": "In Schedule 2 to the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Regulations 1986 (requirements as respects declarations of renunciation), after paragraph 2 insert—\n“2A. If the declarant is not of full capacity and it is desired that the requirement of full capacity be waived in accordance with section 44A of the Act (waiver of requirement for full capacity), the declaration shall specify why it would be in the applicant’s best interests for the requirement to be waived in his case.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/2175 which has been amended by: sections 1 and 2 of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002; and S.I. 2003/540."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3137/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:41:49.957712+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}