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subject to annulment.
Provisions on nationality are usually
set out in detail in Independence Acts. But, in the Cyprus
Act 1960, this was left to be done by Order in Council,
subject only to annulment procedures in Parliament. There is
therefore a precedent for procedures for annulment only in
this field. However substantive provisions on nationality may be of such Parliamentary interest that pressure for a full affirmative procedure ie. prior approval by both Houses of the
Orders in Council in draft, at least on the matter of
nationality, would be difficult to resist.
It could be explained that the nationality provisions would be
left to Orders in Council because they involve detailed
drafting which could delay the Bill and because they must take
account of the state of nationality law in 1997. The
modifications of statutes on termination of sovereignty cannot
be definitively settled now since it depends on the statue of
UK legislation in 1997; similarly the terms of any
transitional measures which might possibly require
modification of Statutes even before 1997 cannot now be
predicted.
THE PASSAGE OF THE BILL
8.
Parliament will have been given an opportunity to
debate the agreement in December;
will not be any great difficulties
and it is hoped that there
in the Bill's passage
through Parliament early in 1985. This issue is however a
sensitive one and it is not possible to rule out some
repetition of previous controversy.
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