PART V Legitimated children.
Posthumous children.
Registration
and naturalisa-
tion under
British
Nationality
Acts 1948 to 1965.
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British Nationality
47.—(1) A person born out of wedlock and legitimated by the subsequent marriage of his parents shall, as from the date of the marriage, be treated for the purposes of this Act as if he had been born legitimate.
(2) A person shall be deemed for the purposes of this section 5 to have been legitimated by the subsequent marriage of his parents if by the law of the place in which his father was domiciled at the time of the marriage the marriage operated immediately or subsequently to legitimate him, and not other- wise.
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48. Any reference in this Act to the status or description of the father or mother of a person at the time of that person's birth shall, in relation to a person born after the death of his father or mother, be construed as a reference to the status or description of the parent in question at the time of that parent's 15 death; and where that death occurred before, and the birth occurs after, commencement, the status or description which would have been applicable to the father or mother had he or she died after commencement shall be deemed to be the status or description applicable to him or her at the time of his or her 20 death.
49.-(1) After the passing of this Act--
(a) a person shall not be registered under any provision of the existing nationality Acts as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British subject; 25 and
(b) a certificate of naturalisation shall not be granted to a
person under any provision of those Acts,
unless-
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with the registration or, as the case may be, the grant of the certificate has been paid; and
(ii) where applicable, the person in question has taken the oath of allegiance which, but for this section, he would have been required by those Acts to take in connec- 35 tion with the registration or, as the case may be, the grant to him of the certificate.
(2) Any provision of the existing nationality Acts which pro- vides for a person to be entitled to registration as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British subject shall 40 have effect subject to subsection (1).
(3) A person registered after the passing of this Act under any provision of the existing nationality Acts as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British subject shall be
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such a citizen by registration or, as the case may be, a British subject by virtue of that provision as from the date on which he is so registered; and a person to whom a certificate of naturalisa- tion is after the passing of this Act granted under any such pro- 5 vision shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by naturalisation as from the date on which the certificate is granted.
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(4) The following provisions of the existing nationality Acts, namely-
(a) in the 1948 Act, section 9 and, in section 10(1), the
words from " and the person onwards; and
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(b) section 1(2) of the British Nationality Act 1965, shall not apply in relation to any application for registration or for a certificate of naturalisation under any provision of the 15 existing nationality Acts, whenever made, unless the person to whom that application relates has been registered or, as the case may be, granted such a certificate before the passing of this Act.
(5) In this section "the existing nationality Acts" means the 20 British Nationality Acts 1948 to 1965.
PART V
1965 c. 34.
50. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- Interpretation,
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the 1948 Act means the British Nationality Act 1948; alien
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means a person who is neither a Commonwealth citizen nor a British protected person nor a citizen of the Republic of Ireland;
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1948 c. 56.
association means an unincorporated body of persons; British protected person" means a person who is a mem- ber of any class of persons declared to be British pro- tected persons by an Order in Council for the time being in force under section 38 or is a British pro- tected person by virtue of the Solomon Islands Act 1978 c, 15. 1978;
commencement ", without more, means the commence-
ment of this Act;
"Commonwealth citizen " means a person who has the
status of a Commonwealth citizen under this Act; company means a body corporate;
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"Crown service means the service of the Crown, whether
within Her Majesty's dominions or elsewhere;
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Crown service under the government of the United King- dom means Crown service under Her Majesty's gov- ernment in the United Kingdom or under Her Majesty's government in Northern Ireland;
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