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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret,
Secret.
Confidential.
DRAFT
SAVINGRAM
To:-
Type 1 +
From
A J Brown
-Restricted:
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
......................................................................................In Confidence
BCR Castries
Repeated Depty Rep Antigua
HI Commissioner Anguilla
St Vincent
My Guidance Tel No: Savingeer of
March.
Telephone No. Ext.
NTD
Department
DSR11
Copy:
Caribbean Department
DISCUSSION DOCUMENT ON NATIONALITY LAW.
1. The Associated States Governments may consider it in- appropriate at this advanced stage in their constitutional development that Parliament at Westminster should legislate
for their inhabitants to become British Overseas Citizens.
You will wish to give those Governments an opportunity to consider their position before the discussion paper is published. They may well give serious attention to the possibility of bringing into effect the dormant citizenship sections of their Constitutions. We see no reason to dis- courage a disposition to do this, and for those who form a firm preference for introducing the local citizenship we would be ready to put forward a draft Order to remove the present constitutional restriction on introducing citizen- ship before the status of Association terminates. For St Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla, settlement of citizenship questions must largely depend on a solution to the major constitutional problems of those islands.
CONFIDENTIAL
138649 Dd. 107857 500M 2/76 MFP