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Treaty to Gibraltar by virtue of the United Kingdom's membership of the Community (Article 227(4)), the declaration also includes United Kingdom citizens who
derive their status from a connection with Gibraltar.
The declaration thus defines United Kingdom nationals as CUKCS or BSWCs with the right of abode in the United Kingdom and CUKCS born etc in Gibraltar or children of such Gibraltar CUKCs. This declaration would
have to be amended to take account of the new citizen- ship. The proposed new status of British Citizen would include some United Kingdom nationals, estimated at not more than 100,000, who are not covered by the present declaration. These are CUKCS, BSWCs and BPPs who are settled in the United Kingdom at Royal Assent and who would become British Citizens. Though it is hoped that the Community would accept all these British Citizens, the matter would have to be negotiated.
2. HG are committed to introduce the EEC uniform passport as soon as practicable after 1978. The then Frime Minister in the European Council of December 1975 made a reservation on the date, explaining that the United Kingdom could not introduce the uniform passport before the new nationality legislation came into force, not earlier than 1979.
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