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British Citizens and British Overseas Citizens would be eligible to hold passports describing them as such and the British Government would be entitled to afford the same consular protection to holders of both citizenships.
18.
For both
Some possible arrangements for a British Citizenship and a British Overseas Citizenship are discussed in detail below. citizenships, these would fall into two parts:
(i)
(ii)
arrangements for deciding which citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies (and other persons eligible to hold British passports) alive when a new scheme came into force were to become either British Citizens or British Overseas Citizens that is, the transitional arrangements; and
the arrangements for acquiring the citizenship by birth, naturalisation etc. after the scheme was introduced that is, the permanent arrangements
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A BRITISH CITIZENSHIP
TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
Groups of citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies who might become British Citizens
19.
As indicated above, British Citizenship would be for those citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies with close ties with the United Kingdom, Clearly, therefore, the citizenship would be conferred at the outset on those who are now citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies because they were born here, adopted here, or acquired citizenship here by some voluntary act such as applying for naturalisation or registration. *
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Then there are those citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies who, though not born, naturalised etc. here themselves, hold their citizenship because of the birth or naturalisation of a parent or grand- parent here, or who for somewhat similar reasons have the right of entry. Where family ties are as close as this these people too might become British Citizens.
21.
There are those who acquired citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies overseas, (for example, because they were born in a dependency or a former dependency) have remained citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies, and have made their homes here. The largest element in this group is probably from East Africa. Many of these people
* excluding those who, though they are registered in the United Kingdom, are not, under our present law, exempted from immigration control.
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