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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-act-1997/schedule-n1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/20",
  "legislation_title": "British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-act-1997",
  "path": "schedule/n1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person shall be taken to have a connection with Hong Kong for the purposes of section 1(2) of this Act if—\n(a) subject to paragraph 2 below, he, his father or his mother was born, naturalised or registered in Hong Kong or found abandoned there as a new-born infant;\n(b) he, his father or his mother was adopted (whether or not in Hong Kong) and the adopter or, in the case of a joint adoption, one of the adopters was at the time of the adoption a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of his having a connection with Hong Kong as specified in this Schedule;\n(c) he, his father or his mother (“the registered person”) was registered outside Hong Kong on an application based (wholly or partly) on any of the following—\n(i) residence in Hong Kong;\n(ii) descent from a person born in Hong Kong;\n(iii) descent from a person naturalised, registered or settled in Hong Kong (whether before or after the birth of the registered person);\n(iv) descent from a person adopted (whether or not in Hong Kong) in the circumstances specified in sub-paragraph (b) above;\n(v) marriage to a person who is a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of his having a connection with Hong Kong as specified in this Schedule or would, but for his death or renunciation of citizenship, be such a citizen by virtue of his having such a connection;\n(vi) Crown service under the government of Hong Kong;\n(vii) where the registered person had previously renounced citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies, or British Dependent Territories citizenship, birth, naturalisation or registration in Hong Kong;\n(d) at the time of his birth his father or mother was settled in Hong Kong;\n(e) his father or mother was born to a parent who at the time of the birth was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of his having a connection with Hong Kong as specified in this Schedule; or\n(f) being a woman, she was married before 1st January 1983 to a man who is a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of his having a connection with Hong Kong as specified in this Schedule or would, but for his death or renunciation of citizenship, be such a citizen by virtue of his having such a connection.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1) above “registered” means registered—\n(a) as a British Dependent Territories citizen, or\n(b) before 1st January 1983, as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies;\nand “registration” shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/20/schedule/n1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:27:39.412750+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."
}