PART I
Right to registration replacing right to
resume
citizenship
of U.K. and Colonies.
1964 c. 22.
Citizens of
U.K. and
Colonies
who are to
become British
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his registration as a British citizen made (subject to subsection (5)) within six years after commencement, to be registered as such a citizen if he satisfies the Secretary of State that he--
(a) was settled in the United Kingdom throughout the
period from commencement to the date of the appli- 5 cation; and
(b) was a British protected person on the date of the appli- cation and had on that date been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom for the last five years or more. (5) If in the special circumstances of any particular case the 10 Secretary of State thinks fit, he may treat subsection (1), sub- section (3) or subsection (4) as if the reference to six years after commencement were a reference to eight years after commence-
ment.
8.--(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person shall be entitled, on 15 an application for his registration as a British citizen, to be regi- stered as such a citizen if the Secretary of State is satisfied that immediately before commencement he would (had he applied for it) have been entitled under section 1(1) of the British Nationality Act 1964 (resumption of citizenship) to be registered 20 as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of having an appropriate qualifying connection with the United Kingdom or, if a woman, by virtue of having been married before commencement to a person who has, or would if living have, such a connection.
(2) A person shall not be entitled to registration under this section on more than one occasion.
(3) For the purposes of this section a person shall be taken to have an appropriate qualifying connection with the United Kingdom if he, his father or his father's father-
(a) was born in the United Kingdom; or
(b) is or was a person naturalised in the United Kingdom;
or
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(2) A person who was registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies under section 1 of the British Nationality 1964 c. 54. (No. 2) Act 1964 (stateless persons) on the ground mentioned in subsection (1)(a) of that section (namely that his mother was
5 a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies at the time when he was born) shall not become a British citizen under subsection (1) unless-
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(c) was registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and
Colonies in the United Kingdom or in a country which 35 at the time was mentioned in section 1(3) of the 1948 Act.
Acquisition at commencement
9.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person who immediately before commencement--
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(a) was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies;
and
(b) had the right of abode in the United Kingdom under
the Immigration Act 1971 as then in force, shall at commencement become a British citizen.
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1971 c. 77.
citizens at
commence- ment.
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(a) his mother becomes a British citizen under subsection (1)
or would have done so but for her death; or
(b) immediately before commencement he had the right of abode in the United Kingdom by virtue of section 2(1)(c) of the Immigration Act 1971 as then in force 1971 c. 77. (settlement in United Kingdom, combined with five or more years' ordinary residence there as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies).
(3) A person who—
(a) immediately before commencement was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of having been registered under subsection (6) of section 12 of the 1948 Act (British subjects before commencement of 1948 Act becoming citizens of United Kingdom and Colonies) under arrangements made by virtue of sub- section (7) of that section (registration in independent Commonwealth country by United Kingdom High Commissioner); and
(b) was so registered on an application under the said subsection (6) based on the applicant's descent in the male line from a person ("the relevant person ") pos- sessing one of the qualifications specified in subsection (1)(a) and (b) of that section (birth or naturalisation in the United Kingdom and Colonies),
shall at commencement become a British citizen if the relevant person was born or naturalised in the United Kingdom.
Renunciation and resumption
10. (1) If any British citizen of full age and capacity makes Renunciation. in the prescribed manner a declaration of renunciation of British citizenship, then, subject to subsections (3) and (4), the Secretary of State shall cause the declaration to be registered.
(2) On the registration of a declaration made in pursuance 40 of this section the person who made it shall cease to be a British
citizen.
(3) A declaration made by a person in pursuance of this section shall not be registered unless the Secretary of State is satisfied that the person who made it will after the registration