20 Jul 2001
TAM NGA YIN AND OTHERS v. THE DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION
- Citation
- TAM NGA YIN AND OTHERS v. THE DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACV20/2000
Majority: Article 24(2)(3) must be construed to require that the parent-child relationship referred to is the natural parental relationship implicit in the word 'born' and to satisfy the time-of-birth requirement one of the parents must have been a permanent resident at the time of the person's birth; the NPCSC Interpretation imposed the time-of-birth requirement and art.24(2)(3) is not an excluded provision under art.158(3); therefore adopted children are not within art.24(2)(3). Minority (Bokhary PJ): the wording permits reading 'born outside Hong Kong of those residents' where 'born' perta…