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NATIONALITY BILL: ARRANGEMENTS FOR DEPENDENCIES
1.
This note sets out the problems that would be caused for the Government if Gibraltar or the Falkland Islands were given British citizenship instead of citizenship of the British Dependent Territories. Amendments have already been tabled by Mr Enoch Powell which would incorporate the Falkland Islands and
St Helena in British citizenship and another amendment has been tabled by Mr Ivor Stanbrook which would incorporate these two territories and Gibraltar in
British citizenship.
2.
The reasons why Home Office Ministers and all
officials working on the Nationality Bill believe that no exceptions should be made for any dependent territory are as follows.
a.
If an exception were made for Gibraltar it would be extremely difficult to resist pressures for similar treatment for the Falkland Islands.
b. To make exceptions for either or both of those two
dependencies only would be regarded as racist.
c. Once an exception had been made it would be
impossible to continue to argue that CBDT is → parallel and not a second class citizenship; and
the concept of a collective CBDT would lose
credibility.
d. Requests from other territories, which have so far
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