CONFIDENTIAL
23. It is proposed that the details of grants of
naturalisation in dependencies by virtue of Crown Service
shall be dealt with in a separate paper, together with that
of Crown Service for British Citizenship.
Dual Citizenship
24. It is suggested that the same restrictions should apply
to the holding of a citizenship in addition to British
Overseas Citizenship as have been proposed in NLR(78)2 for
British Citizenship: that is, that dual nationality acquired
involuntarily should not be affected, but that any British
Overseas Citizen who voluntarily acquires another citizenship
(including British Citizenship) should thereby forfeit his
citizenship. Similarly any Commonwealth or foreign citizen
who is naturalised as a British Overseas Citizen shall be
required to renouce his other citizenship. This arrangement
would apply to British Citizens also. It is also proposed
(see NLR(78)2) that a minor child who is naturalised as a
British Overseas Citizen shall be required to renounce his
other citizenship within two years of reaching majority,
failing which British Overseas Citizenship would be lost; and
a British Overseas Citizen who is a minor, and for whom
another citizenship has been obtained by voluntary means,
shall be required to renounce it within 2 years of reaching
his majority failing which British Overseas Citizenship should
lapse.
Loss of Citizenship
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