{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hong-kong-british-nationality-order-1986/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hong-kong-british-nationality-order-1986/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/948",
  "legislation_title": "The Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hong-kong-british-nationality-order-1986",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Connections with Hong Kong",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Order a person shall be taken to have a connection with Hong Kong if—\n(a) subject to paragraph (3) below, he, his father or his mother was born, naturalised or registered in Hong Kong or found abandoned there as a new-born infant; or\n(b) he, his father or his mother was adopted (whether or not in Hong Kong) and the adopter or, in the case of a joint adoption, one of the adopters was at the time of the adoption a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of his having a connection with Hong Kong as specified in this Article; or\n(c) he, his father or his mother was registered outside Hong Kong on an application based (wholly or partly) on any of the following:—\n(i) residence in Hong Kong;\n(ii) descent from a person born in Hong Kong;\n(iii) descent from a person naturalised, registered or settled in Hong Kong (whether before or after the birth of the person registered);\n(iv) descent from a person adopted (whether or not in Hong Kong) in the circumstances specified in sub-paragraph (b) above;\n(v) marriage to a person who is a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of his having a connection with Hong Kong as specified in this Article or would have been so but for his death or renunciation of citizenship;\n(vi) Crown service under the government of Hong Kong;\n(vii) where citizenship has been renounced and subsequently resumed, birth, naturalisation or registration in Hong Kong; or\n(d) at the time of his birth his father or mother was settled in Hong Kong; or\n(e) his father or mother was born to a parent who at the time of the birth was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of his having a connection with Hong Kong as specified in this Article; or\n(f) being a woman, she was married before 1st January 1983 to a man who is a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of his having a connection with Hong Kong as specified in this Article or would have been so but for his death.\n(2) In paragraph (1) above “registered” means registered as a British Dependent Territories citizen or, before 1st January 1983, as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; and “registration” shall be construed accordingly.\n(3) A person born in Hong Kong on or after 1st January 1983 shall not be taken to have a connection with Hong Kong under paragraph (1)(a) above by virtue of his birth there unless, at the time of his birth, one of his parents was—\n(a) settled in Hong Kong; or\n(b) a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of his having a connection with Hong Kong as specified in this Article.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/948/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:47:17.113420+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."
}