{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-selection-scheme-order-1990/schedule/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-selection-scheme-order-1990/schedule/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2292",
  "legislation_title": "The British Nationality (Hong Kong) (Selection Scheme) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-selection-scheme-order-1990",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Connections with the United Kingdom",
  "text": "(1) An applicant shall be allocated points for his connections with the United Kingdom in accordance with the provisions of this Article.\n(2) In this Article “relevant service” means–\n(a) service with a British undertaking;\n(b) Crown service under the Government of the United Kingdom or Hong Kong;\n(c) service of any description for the time being designated under section 2(3) of the Act of 1981.\n(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), an applicant shall be allocated one point for every period of 6 months relevant service completed before the common date up to a maximum of 35 points.\n(4) Paragraph (3) shall not apply to an applicant who is not in relevant service on the common date but such an applicant shall be allocated 5 points if, before that date, he had completed at least 3 years relevant service.\n(5) Notwithstanding paragraph (4), an applicant who was in Crown Service under the Government of the United Kingdom or Hong Kong but who has ceased to be in such service because the functions of the organisation in which he served have since the date of the passing of the Act of 1990 ceased to be performed on behalf of the Crown shall, if he was employed by that organisation on the common date, be allocated one point for each period of 6 months service with that organisation completed before the date on which the applicant ceased to be in Crown service.\n(6) Subject to paragraph (8), an applicant who has any of the connections with the United Kingdom listed in paragraph (7), shall be allocated 5 points in respect of each connection which he has.\n(7) The connections with the United Kingdom referred to in paragraph (6) are that the applicant–\n(a) has, by the common date, been educated in the United Kingdom at primary or secondary level for a period of at least 3 years;\n(b) has, by the common date, been educated at a university, polytechnic or other further education institution in the United Kingdom for a period of at least 2 years;\n(c) has, on the common date, a spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent or parent-in-law who is a British citizen or settled in the United Kingdom or has, on that date, a child being educated in the United Kingdom at primary, secondary or further education level;\n(d) owned investments or property in the United Kingdom on the date of the passing of the Act of 1990 worth at that date in excess of £100,000 or, in relation to an application made in any period specifed in a second or subsequent direction, owns investments or property in the United Kingdom at the beginning of that period worth at that time in excess of £100,000.\n(8) No applicant shall be allocated more than 15 points under paragraph (6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1789",
      "affecting_title": "The British Nationality (Hong Kong) (Selection Scheme) (Amendment) Order 1993"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2292/schedule/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:57:37.677805+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."
}