The People Concerned
7.
The people on whose behalf concern has been expressed are as follows: (a) people born in the United Kingdom who either settle overseas
or are temporarily overseas when their children are born. There
is no problem here, since if either the father or the mother is
a British Citizen by birth, so will the children be;
(b)
people who are themselves citizens by descent, having been
born overseas, who in their turn have children born overseas.
Those who are living in foreign countries will no longer have the
entitlement to obtain citizenship for their children by consular
registration, but they will benefit from the concession mentioned
in paragraph 6(e) above if they resettle in the United Kingdom;
(c) people who are citizens by descent of the second or later
generations who have preserved their citizenship under the present
law by consular registration of births, or because one father in
the chain of descent has been in Crown Service. Under present
proposals people who have up to now had the benefit of consular
registration would no longer be able to pass on citizenship to
their children.
Advantages Already Proposed
8. Many of the people mentioned in paragraph 7 above will in fact benefit from
the general provisions mentioned in paragraph 6 i.e.
(a) because citizenship will descend to the first generation of
children born abroad if the mother was born in the United Kingdom.
This must affect many families;
4.