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(2) Except as provided by article 3 of this Order, any person who immediately before the appointed day is a British Dependent Territories citizen shall on that day cease to be such a citizen if he becomes on that day a citizen of Saint Christopher and Nevis.
(3) On and after the appointed day, Part II of the 1981 Act (British Dependent Territories citizenship) and Schedule 2 to that Act (provisions for reducing statelessness) shall not apply to any person who, but for this provision, would have been entitled to be registered as a British Dependent Territories citizen under those provisions by virtue of his connection with a person who on the appointed day ceases to be such a citizen under paragraph (2) of this article, or who would have done so if living on the appointed day.
Retention of British Dependent Territories citizenship
3.-(1) Subject to paragraph (3) of this article, a person shall not cease to be a British Dependent Territories citizen under article 2(2) of this Order if-
(a) he or one of his parents or grandparents—
(i) was born in a relevant territory; or
(ii) is or was a person naturalised in a relevant territory; or
(iii) was registered in a relevant territory as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, in the case of registration before commencement of the 1981 Act, or as a British Dependent Territories citizen, in the case of registration after commencement of the 1981 Act; or
(b) his father or his father's father would, if living immediately before the commencement of the British Nationality Act 1948(a) (hereinafter called "the 1948 Act"), have been deemed naturalised under section 32(6) of that Act (previous local naturalisation in a colony or protectorate) by virtue of having enjoyed the privileges of naturalisa- tion in a relevant territory; or
(c) he is a person in respect of whom the following requirements are
satisfied, namely—
(i) he was adopted on or after 1st January 1983 by order of a court in
a relevant territory; and
(ii) his adopter or, in the case of a joint adoption, one of his adopters, was a British Dependent Territories citizen at the date of that order and does not cease to be such a citizen under article 2(2) of this Order.
(2) In paragraph (1) of this article "relevant territory" means any territory which on the appointed day is a dependent territory for the purposes of the 1981 Act (and accordingly does not include Saint Christopher and Nevis).
(3) Paragraph (1) of this article shall not apply-
(a) in the case of registration before commencement of the 1981 Act, to a woman who was registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and
(a) 1948 c. 56.
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