APPENDIX D
GLOSSARY
1. This glossary is intended merely as an explanation of the various terms and expressions used in the paper; it has no legal authority as an
interpretation of those terms or expressions and, in particular, when referring to the holders of a nationality status it assumes that the persons
concerned have not renounced or forfeited it.
2.
Acts.
The following terms and expressions are used in the British Nationality
2.
b.
British subject/Commonwealth citizen
These terms are synonymous. Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies and citizens of the independent Commonwealth countries all hold the additional status of British subject/Commonwealth citizen. There are also persons whose basic status is British subject and who do not possess the citizenship of any Commonwealth country (see references below to British Subjects without Citizenship, British subjects by virtue of section 2 of the British Nationality Act 1948, and British subjects by virtue of section 1 of the British
Nationality Act 1965).
Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies
This status is held by:
i.
ii.
persons who, or whose fathers, were born, naturalised, or
registered under the British Nationality Acts in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man, or in any of the
remaining colonies, or in any of the Associated States in the
West Indies;
persons born in foreign countries whose fathers were citizens
of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent and whose births
have been registered at a British Consulate;
iii. persons who, or whose fathers, derive their citizenship from a
connection with a former colony or other dependency but who
did not acquire the new country's citizenship automatically at
independence;
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