DSR 11C
As to the UK, (a) and (b) of the attached draft Declaration
simply continue the existing coverage of certain CUKC and
British subjects viz those with the right of abode in the UK,
in the terms in which they appear in BNA 1981.
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4.
The 'Gibraltar clause' (section 5 of BNA 1981), which was
adopted in October 1981, reads
'A British Dependent Territories citizen who falls
to be treated as a national of the United Kingdom for
the purposes of the Community Treaties shall be
entitled to be registered as a British citizen if
an application is made for his registration as such
a citizen.'
We worked over several months preparing - with considerable
difficulty a new definition based on the assumption that
its coverage should be restricted so far as possible to the
categories covered by the present definition, to accord with
the line taken by Government spokesmen during debate on the
clause. My letter of 11 December 1981 to the Home Office refer
5. Late last month when we were about to submit the draft
definition on this basis for Ministers' approval the Attorney-
General of Gibraltar visited the FCO to discuss draft proposals
for changes in Gibraltar legislation in consequence of BNA 1981
These amendments have been prepared in pursuance of our request
that dependent territories should revise their immigration and
associated Ordinances to accord so far as possible with the
Home Secretary's view expressed in Parliament on 28 January 198
that BDTCs who derive that citizenship from a connection with
a particular territory should have the right of residence there
This is the effect of the amendments which Gibraltar Ministers
/are