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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-hong-kong-selection-scheme-order-1990/schedule/part-I/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2292",
  "legislation_title": "The British Nationality (Hong Kong) (Selection Scheme) Order 1990",
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  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "The scheme",
  "text": "This scheme is submitted by the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State under paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990 for the purposes of section 1(1) of that Act (acquisition of British citizenship by up to 50,000 persons recommended to the Secretary of State for that purpose by the Governor of Hong Kong).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1789",
      "affecting_title": "The British Nationality (Hong Kong) (Selection Scheme) (Amendment) Order 1993"
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  "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."
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