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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-selection-scheme-order-1990/schedule/paragraph-6",
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  "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/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Transfer of application between classes",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if it appears to the Governor that an application in one class could more appropriately be dealt with in another class he may treat the application as if it had been made in that other class.\n(2) Where the Governor treats an application under paragraph (1) as having been made in another class but decides not to recommend the applicant in that class he shall reconsider the application in the class in which it was first made.",
  "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"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2292/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}