Hong Kong Ordinances

IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE - SCHEDULE 1

HONG KONG PERMANENT RESIDENTS

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

[sections 2(1) & 59A]

1. Any person who is wholly or partly of Chinese race and has at any time been
ordinarily resident in Hong Kong for a continuous period of not less than 7
years.

2. Any person who is a British Dependent Territories citizen and who-

   (a)  belongs to a class or description of persons specified in Article 2 of
        the Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986 (L.N. 233 of 1986) as
        having a connection with Hong Kong; or

   (b)  is such a citizen by virtue of his having a connection with any of the
        British Dependent Territories (other than Hong Kong) mentioned in
        Schedule 6 to the British Nationality Act 1981 (1981 c. 61 U.K.) and
        has at any time been married to a person specified in subparagraph
        (a).

*3. Any person who is a Commonwealth citizen and who immediately before 1
January 1983 had the right to land in Hong Kong by virtue of section 8(1)(a)
as then in force. (* Note: For ease of reference, the repealed section 8(1)(a)
is reproduced in the Appendix) (Schedule 1 added 78 of 1982 s. 14. Replaced 31
of 1987 s. 27)
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* Note APPENDIX

Immediately before 1 January 1983 section 8(1)(a) read as follows-

"Right to land in Hong Kong and to remain free of conditions
 of stay.	8.   (1)  The following persons shall have the right to land in Hong 
Kong that is to say-

   (a)  Hong Kong belongers*;".

* "Hong Kong belonger" in section 2(1) (Interpretation) was defined as
follows-

""Hong Kong belonger" means a person who-

   (a)  immediately before 1 January 1983 was-

        (i)    a British subject who was born in Hong Kong;

        (ii)   a British subject by naturalization in Hong Kong;

        (iii)  a British subject by registration in Hong Kong under
               section 7(2) of the British Nationality Act 1948;

        (iv)   a British subject married or who had been married to, or was a
               child of, a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or
               (iii);".