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S.C. F
Mr Towner.
Sus
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NOTICES OF AMENDMENTS
given on
Friday 6th February 1981
For other Amendment(s), see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:
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STANDING COMMITTEE F
BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL
Meaning of British citizen' by descent'
Mr Timothy Raison
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move the following Clause:
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(1) For the purposes of this Act a British citizen is a British citizen "by descent if and only if
(a) he was born after commencement and is a British citizen by virtue of section
2(1)(a) or registration under section 3(2); or
(b) he is a person bom outside the United Kingdom before commencement who became a British citizen at commencement and immediately before commence- ment was either-
(i) a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of section 5 of the 1948 Act (citizenship by descent) other than one whose father was at the time of the birth serving outside the United Kingdom in service of a description mentioned in subsection (2), his recruitment for the service in question having taken place in the United Kingdom; or
(ii) a person who, under any provision of the British Nationality Acts 1948 to 1965, was deemed for the purposes of the proviso to section 5(1) of the 1948 Act to be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent only, or would have been so deemed if male.
(2) The descriptions of service referred to in subsection(1)(b)(i) are-
(a) Crown service under the government of the United Kingdom; and
(b) service of any description at any time designated under section 2(3).'.
Mr Timothy Raison
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Clause 1, page 2, line 8, at end insert-
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'(3A) A person born in the United Kingdom after commencement who is not a British citizen by virtue of subsection (1) or (2) shall be entitled, on an application for his registration as a British citizen made at any time after he has attained the age of ten years, to be registered as such a citizen if, as regards each of the first ten years of that person's life, the Secretary of State is satisfied that the number of days on which he was absent from the United Kingdom in that year does not exceed 90.'.
Mr Timothy Raison
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Clause 2, page 2, line 25, leave out from citizen' to 'or' in line 26 and insert
otherwise than by descent'.
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