subsequently renounces or is deprived of BDTC status before
30 June 1997 will not meet this requirement, and cannot therefore
retain BN(0) status beyond that date. Article 4(3) cannot
operate so as to render a person stateless. Under section 12(3)
of the Band Do 198 and 40(5) a person may not respectively renounce
if
deprived of British citizenship if he would thereby be rendered
stateless. Section 24 and 40(10) of the BNA 1981 apply these
provisions to BDTCs. Thus a BDTC who has no other citizenship,
and who acquires BN(0) status, cannot renounce or be deprived of
alsa his BDTC status since under Article 4(3) he would now base his
BN(0) status and would thereby be rendered stateless.