DENIS
CONFIDENTIAL
PART 6
CITIZENSHIP OF THE BRITISH DEPENDENT TERRITORIES:
TRANSITIONAL PROVISICKS
6.1
General
:
6.11 Citizenship of the British Dependent Territories is to be
acquired on the coming into force of the new Act by those citizens
of the United Kingdom and Colonies who have a close connection with a territory which is at that time a dependency (as to which see paragraph 1.8 above).
6.12 As mentioned in paragraph 1.13 above it will be possible for a person to be both 2 citizen of the British Dependent Territories
and a British citizen; but British (verseas citizenship will not normally be held together with either of these citizenships.
6.2 People who beccze citizens of the Fritish Denendent
Territories
6.21 A person is to become a citizen of the British Dependent
Territories if
(a) he is a citizen of the United Kingdon and Colonics
by virtue of his birth, naturalisation or registration
in an existing dependency;
or
(b) he is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies
born to a parent who had thīvi citizenship at the time
of the birth, and that parent either -