ever ase repeat exactly the definitions of citizenship
in the British Nationality Act 1981.
Under that scheme
there would have been five possible descriptions of
national status in British passports:
i) British Citizen for those with a right of abode in
the United Kingdom.
ii) British Dependent Territories Citizen (BDTC) plus
the name of the dependent territory for those
with right of abode in a particular dependent
territory.
iii) British Overseas Citizen (BOC) for those who
inherit a claim to citizenship which is not
reinforced by sufficient connection with the
United Kingdom or with a particular dependent
territory to give them the right of abode.
iv) British Protected Person (BPP) for those whose
interests we would protect abroad but who have no
claim to citizenship nor to any right of abode in
the United Kingdom or in a Dependent Territory.
v) British Subject for a small number of residuals
who for passport purposes can be bracketed with
BPPS.
All these categories apart from the first, British
citizen, are expected to diminish over the years; BDTCs
as dependencies become independent, and the remaining
three categories because the status of BOC, of BPP and
of British Subject cannot in general be transmitted by
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descent.
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4. The advantage of the system just described is that
it ties descriptions in passports firmly to the terms
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used in the recent Nationality Act which in turn are
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