SCH. 1
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British Nationality
(iii) under any power of detention conferred by the immigration laws of that territory ;
(c) any period when, being liable to be detained as mentioned in paragraph (b)(i) or (ii) of this sub-paragraph, he was unlawfully at large or absent without leave and for that 5 reason liable to be arrested or taken into custody;
(d) any period when, his actual detention under any such power as is mentioned in paragraph (b)(iii) of this sub- paragraph being required or specifically authorised, he was unlawfully at large and for that reason liable to be 10 arrested.
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Interpretation
10. In this Schedule the relevant territory" has the meaning given by section 16(3).
Section 33.
SCHEDULE 2
PROVISIONS FOR REDUCING STATELESSNESS
Persons born in the United Kingdom after commencement 1.-(1) Where a person born in the United Kingdom after com- mencement would, but for this paragraph, be born stateless, then, subject to sub-paragraph (3)—-
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(a) if at the time of the birth his father or mother is a citizen 20 or subject of a description mentioned in sub-paragraph (2), he shall be a citizen or subject of that description; and accordingly
(b) if he is born legitimate and at the time of the birth each of
25 his parents is a citizen or subject of, a different description so mentioned, he shall be a citizen or subject of the same description so mentioned as each of them is respectively at that time.
(2) The descriptions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are a citizen of the British Dependent Territories, a British Overseas citizen 30 and a British subject under this Act.
(3) A person shall not be a British subject by virtue of this paragraph if by virtue of it he is a citizen of a description mentioned in sub-paragraph (2).
2. A person born in the United Kingdom after commencement 35 who is not a British citizen by virtue of section 1(1) or (2) shall be entitled to be registered as a British citizen if, on an application for his registration as a British citizen, the Secretary of State is satisfied-
(a) that he is and always has been stateless; and
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(b) that on the date of the application he had attained the
age of ten but was under the age of twenty-two; and (c) that he was in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the period of five years ending with that date and that the number of days on which he was absent from the United 45 Kingdom in that period does not exceed 450.