Article 2

There shall be inserted after section 1 of the Colonial Probates Act 1892 (application of Act by Order in Council)^f1 the following provision:

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This Act shall apply in relation to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China as it applied, immediately before 1st July 1997, to Hong Kong; and the Colonial Probates Act Application Order 1965 shall, in relation to that Region, continue in force accordingly.”