{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-selection-scheme-amendment-order-1993/schedule/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-selection-scheme-amendment-order-1993/schedule/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1789",
  "legislation_title": "The British Nationality (Hong Kong) (Selection Scheme) (Amendment) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-selection-scheme-amendment-order-1993",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For Article 10 there shall be substituted—\n“10 (1) Subject to the provisions of this Article, the quota in relation to applicants in approved occupations shall be 500 and within that quota of 500 the quota for each approved occupation for the second period shall be determined by the following formula—\n(AB+CD)×E where—\na A is the number of emigrants in that approved occupation on the common date, determined by multiplying the number of persons who appear to the Governor to be working in Hong Kong in that approved occupation on the common date by the emigration rate applicable to that approved occupation;\nb B is the total number of emigrants in all approved occupations on the common date;\nc C is the estimated number of applicants in that approved occupation in the second period, determined by multiplying the number of persons who appear to the Governor to be working in Hong Kong in that approved occupation on the common date by the application rate of that approved occupation in the first period;\nd D is the total number of applicants in all approved occupations in the second period, as determined by the Governor;\ne E is one half of the maximum number of applicants in the approved occupations who may be recommended in the second period.\n(2) If the Governor is satisfied that the application of the formula set out in paragraph (1) would be inappropriate in relation to a particular approved occupation because either\n(a) the information relating to the applicable emigration rate is unsatisfactory or unavailable; or\n(b) the number of persons who appear to the Governor to be working in Hong Kong in that occupation is so small that the emigration rate is an unreliable indication of the extent to which such persons are likely to emigrate from Hong Kong in the future,\nhe may, in relation to that approved occupation, calculate the quota in accordance with such criteria as he may determine.\n(3) The quota in relation to each specified occupational group for the second period shall be determined by the following formula—\n(AB+CD)×E where—\na A is the number of emigrants in that occupational group on the common date, determined by multiplying the number of persons who appear to the Governor to be working in Hong Kong in that occupational group on the common date by the emigration rate applicable to that occupational group;\nb B is the total number of emigrants in all occupational groups on the common date;\nc C is the estimated number of applicants in that occupational group in the second period, determined by multiplying the number of persons who appear to the Governor to be working in Hong Kong in that occupational group on the common date by the application rate of that occupational group in the first period;\nd D is the total number of applicants in all occupational groups in the second period, as determined by the Governor;\ne E is one half of the maximum number of applicants in the specified occupational groups who may be recommended in the second period.\n(4) Such of the quota in the first period as was specified by direction to be applied to the general occupational class, and which remains unused at the end of the first period, shall be carried forward to the general occupational class quota in the second period.\n(5) The Governor may, at any time in the second period, transfer such of the quota in an approved occupation or specified occupational group which remains unused, or which in his opinion is likely to remain unused, in the second period to one or more of the other approved occupations or specified occupational groups.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1789/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:53:34.958649+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."
}