CONFIDENTIAL
C. TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
31. The new citizenships, proposed above, would be bestowed on people who are Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies at the date of coming into force of the new legislation according to the same general principles as are set out in the Green Paper, with necessary differences to allow for the
creation of three citizenships rather than two.
British Citizenship
32. On the day that new legislation comes into effect, British Citizenship
would be acquired automatically by those Citizens of the United Kingdom and
Colonies:
(a) who have the right of abode in the United Kingdom through their birth, adoption, naturalisation or registration* in the United Kingdom;
(b) who have the right of abode by reason of having a parent or grand-
parent born, adopted, naturalised or registered in the United Kingdom;
(c) who have been married to a man who becomes or would but for his death
have become a British Citizen;
(d) who have come from overseas and who have acquired the right of abode
in the United Kingdom through being lawfully settled here.
33. Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies from overseas who have been lawfully here less than 5 years, and do not already have the right of abode, would acquire British Citizenship on completing 5 years residence provided they were then free of conditions of stay. (In the meantime they would have become Citizens of the British Dependent Territories or British Overseas Citizens according to the nature of their connection.)
34. The Government think it right that British Subjects without Citizenship and British Protected Persons who are lawfully settled in the United Kingdom should be able to benefit in the same way as the Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies referred to in paragraphs 32(d) and 33. But there is the difference that the holder of either of those statuses might find that
with the exception of those referred to in paragraph 19.
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