{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hong-kong-british-nationality-order-1986/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hong-kong-british-nationality-order-1986/article-4.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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Right to acquire new status of British National (Overseas)",
  "text": "(1) On and after 1st July 1987 there shall be a new form of British nationality the holders of which shall be known as British Nationals (Overseas).\n(2) Any person who is a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue (wholly or partly) of his having a connection with Hong Kong and who, but for his having a connection with Hong Kong, would not be such a citizen shall be entitled, before 1st July 1997 (or before the end of 1997 if born in that year before that date), to be registered as a British National (Overseas) and to hold or be included in a passport appropriate to that status.\n(3) Any person who, having become a British National (Overseas) by virtue of paragraph (2) above, ceases at any time before 1st July 1997 to be a British Dependent Territories citizen shall at the same time cease to be a British National (Overseas).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1795",
      "affecting_title": "The Hong Kong (British Nationality) (Amendment) Order 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1795",
      "affecting_title": "The Hong Kong (British Nationality) (Amendment) Order 1993"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/948/article/4",
    "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."
}