CONFIURTIAL
STANDING COMMITTEE F
BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL
CONFIDENTIAL
ANNEX B
Acquisition by registration: citizens of the British Dependent
Territories etc.
To move the following Clause:-
'(1) This section applies to any person who is a
citizen of the British Dependent Territories, a British
Overseas citizen, a British subject under this Act or a
British protected person.
(2) A person to whom this section applies shall be
entitled, on an application for his registration as a British citizen, to be registered as such a citizen if the Secretary of State is satisfied that the following requirements are satisfied in the case of that person, namely
(a) that he was in the United Kingdom at the
beginning of the period of five years
ending with the date of the application
and that the number of days on which he
was absent from the United Kingdom in
that period does not exceed 450; and
(b) that the number of days on which he was
absent from the United Kingdom in the
period of twelve months so ending does
not exceed 90; and
(c) that he was not at any time in the period
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of twelve months so ending subject under