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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-regulations-1986/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-regulations-1986/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/2175",
  "legislation_title": "The British Nationality (Hong Kong) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Notice of proposed deprivation of status",
  "text": "(1) Where it is proposed to make an order under section 40 of the Act depriving a person of the status of a British National (Overseas), the notice required by section 40(6) of the Act to be given to that person may be given—\n(a) in a case where that person's whereabouts are known, by causing the notice to be delivered to him personally or by sending it to him by post;\n(b) in a case where that person's whereabouts are not known, by sending it by post in a letter addressed to him at his last known address.\n(2) Any notice given as aforesaid shall include a statement of the time within which an application for an inquiry under section 40(7) of the Act must be made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 40 is applied in relation to the status of a British National (Overseas) by the Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986, Article 7(11)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/540",
      "affecting_title": "The British Nationality (Hong Kong) (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/2175/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:36:04.786661+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."
}