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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-selection-scheme-order-1990/schedule/paragraph-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-selection-scheme-order-1990/schedule/paragraph-21.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/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Quotas in the disciplined services class",
  "text": "Within the quota prescribed for the disciplined services class by Article 5, the quota for each disciplined service for each period specified in a direction shall be determined by the following formula–\nAB×C where–\na A is the number of persons who appear to the Governor to be in that disciplined service on the common date minus the number of persons in that service whom the Governor intends to invite to apply in the sensitive service class;\nb B is the total number of persons who appear to the Governor to be serving in all the disciplined services on the common date minus the number of persons in those services whom the Governor intends to invite to apply in the sensitive service class;\nc C is the maximum number of applicants in the disciplined services class who may, by virtue of a direction, be recommended in the period specified in that direction.",
  "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/21",
    "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."
}