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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-act-1990/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/34",
  "legislation_title": "British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-act-1990",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for the acquisition of British citizenship by selected Hong Kong residents, their spouses and minor children.\n[26th July 1990]\nBE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This Act has the same as provisions of 1981 c. 61 mentioned in section 2(3), see s. 6(5)"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}