27.
CONFIDENTIAL
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However, the Government do recognise the special position of the
United Kingdom passport holders from East Africa, and they will maintain their
undertaking to continue the special voucher scheme for them. The essence of
this scheme is that heads of households will be able to enter this country
with their families at a controlled rate. By the time the new nationality
legislation is brought into force many of those eligible for special vouchers
will have received them and will have settled in this country. They will then
be eligible to become British Citizens under the arrangements proposed in
paragraph 33 below.
28.
The effect of the Government's proposals would be that everyone who
immediately before the new Nationality Act comes into force is a Citizen of
the United Kingdom and Colonies would acquire one of the three new citizenships.
Nobody would be excluded.
29. People holding the new citizenships would be eligible to have passports describing them accordingly, and the British Government would be entitled to
afford consular protection to the holders of all three citizenships in
accordance with international practice.
Other British Subjects and British Protected Persons
30. It is proposed to leave unchanged the status of British Subject without Citizenship save that those who have long been resident in the United Kingdom
and are settled here would be able to become British Citizens. It is also
intended, as explained in paragraph 110 that the status of Irish people who have made claims to remain British Subjects under section 2 of the 1948 Act
should remain unaltered. The status of British Protected Person would remain,
although those resident for a long time in the United Kingdom and settled here would be entitled, if they wished, to acquire British Citizenship. details of these proposals are in paragraphs 3 and 112.
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