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[TEXT] GUIDANCE TELEGRAM

BRITISH NATIONALITY (FALKLAND ISLANDS) AMENDMENT BILL

1. A Private Members Bill introduced in the House of Lord

by Baroness Vickers and read a second time on 29 November

would grant British Citizenship to the 400 Falkland

Islanders who will otherwise become British Dependent

[only]

Territories Citizens under the British Nationality Act

1981 when it comes into force on 1 January 1983. The other

1400 Islanders have sufficiently close connections with the

BNA

UK to qualify as British Citizens under the [new Act].

LINE TO TAKE

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In response to

Posts should not initiate discussion.

enquiries it should be emphasised that the measure is wholl

exceptional and is not to be regarded as a precedent for

If asked about Gibraltar

dependent territories.

other

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