CONFIDENTIAL
3.
Please note that we see these titles as
administrative variants, for use in passports and for
other administrative purposes, in place of the
forall colonial belonger
single collective title which we think will be
virtually essential for drafting purposes in the
legislation. For example, to produce either of the
two titles mentioned above the collective/title should
probably be British Dependent Territories Citizen and
this, or something similar, such as Citizen of the
British Dependent Territories would probably serve
to meet most of the other variants that had been
suggested by other dependencies.
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4. It might be that tactically, if CUKC is unattainable
we should try to persuade the Home Office that for
the purposes of the White Paper they should go no
announu
a that categor
- category and site suggest a
further than to indicate a suitable collective title
Colonial belongers
for all dependències. The one that would accommodate
the two administrative titles mentioned in paragh
Probably
others
above and leave scope for other variants that might
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be preferred, is British Dependent Territories Citizen,
or something very close to this. The White Paper
fo on to
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could explain that for passports and other administrative with and we
have individual gitizenshipt her each dependency, there is menthy i little choice alternative to th a collective titl
Summilum it then.
purposes that collective title would be adapted to
incorporate the name of individual territories as appropriate (though the form of the adaptation would preferred
have to be consistent for all dependencies).
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Such
an arrangement could be quoted to explain that an
crestearer of 17
individual citizenship for a particular territory was
hot being created by the Act.
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