Article 3

Section 42 of the British Nationality Act 1981 shall be amended so as to add, after subsection (5)–

“(6)

A person who applies for registration or naturalisation as a British Dependent Territories citizen under any provision of this Act by virtue (wholly or partly) of his having a connection with Hong Kong, may not be naturalised or registered, as the case may be, unless he makes his application on or before 31st March 1996.”.