Annex A
Definition of UK Nationals for Community purposes agreed upon
signing the Treaty of Accession to the EC:
(a) persons who are citizens of the UK and Colonies or British subjects not possessing that citizenship or the citizenship of any other Commonwealth country or territory, who, in either case, have the right of abode in the UK and are therefore exempt from UK immigration control;
(b) persons who are citizens of the UK and Colonies by birth or by
registration or naturalisation in Gibraltar, or whose father was
so born, registered or naturalised.
The persons covered by (a) above are:
They are patrials. (i) CUKCs with right of abode in the UK.
are the people who will become British citizens under the new Nationality Law.
They
(ii) British subjects without citizenship who have the right of
abode in the UK. This is a very small and restrictive category. A typical example would be a person born before 1 January 1949 in India or Pakistan of a father born there but whose mother
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was born in the UK. Usually the people come from British families who had served in India for several generations. is the UK-born mother that is crucial for it is from her that
These people the 'right of abode in the UK' is acquired. living in the UK have been able to become CUKCs after residence here for a long time now, and will still be able to do so for.
Most will have two years after the new Act comes into force. already done so; but a few are so outraged to learn that they were not automatically made citizens that they refuse to apply for citizenship on principle (they are irreverently known in the department as the Cheltenham Colonels).
(iii) British subjects under Section 2 of the 1948 Nationality Act
These are citizens of who have the right of abode in the UK.
the Irish Republic born before 1 January 1949 but who are entitled to claim to remain British subjects by Section 2 of
Those amongst them the 1948 Act. About 140,000 have done so.
wh o
a.
have
a mother who is a CUKC by birth in the UK, or
b. a father or mother born in Ireland before
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