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to be registered as such a citizen if the requirements specified
in paragraph (4) below are fulfilled in the case of either
that person's father or his mother ("the parent in question").
(4) The requirements referred to in paragraph (3) above
are
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(a)
(b)
that the parent in question was a British
Overseas citizen by virtue of paragraph (2)
above at the time of the birth; and
that the father or mother of the parent in
question was, immediately before 1st July 1997,
a British Dependent Territories citizen
otherwise than by descent or would have been
so but for his or her death.
(5) If in the special circumstances of any particular
case the Secretary of State thinks fit, he may treat
paragraph (3) above as if the reference to twelve months
were a reference to six years.
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