The British Nationality (Hong Kong) (Selection Scheme) Order 1990
Section 1(1) of the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990 provides that the Secretary of State shall register as British citizens up to 50,000 persons recommended to him for that purpose by the Governor of Hong Kong under a scheme or schemes made and approved in accordance with Schedule 1 to that Act. Paragraph 1 of that Schedule provides that effect shall be given to any such scheme by an Order in Council setting out the terms of the scheme. Paragraph 2(a) of the Schedule provides that the scheme set out in the Order in Council shall, in the case of the first Order to be made, be a scheme submitted by the Governor with such modifications (if any) as the Secretary of State may think necessary or expedient.