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British Nationality
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British Nationality Act 1981 a British subject, or a British protected person within the meaning of that Act; or ".
SCHEDULE 8
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
Applications for naturalisation or registration
pending at commencement
1.—(1) This paragraph applies to any application—
(a) for registration under any provision of the British Nationality Acts 1948 to 1965 as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or as a British subject ; or
(b) for a certificate of naturalisation under section 10 of the
1948 Act,
which is received before commencement by a person authorised 15 to receive it on behalf of the person to whom it is made but
which at commencement has not been determined.
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(2) In relation to any application to which this paragraph applies— (a) the British Nationality Acts 1948 to 1965 and all regula- tions and arrangements in force under them immediately before commencement shall (so far as applicable) continue to apply; and
(b) this Act shall not apply;
but on the granting of such an application and the taking under those Acts of such other steps as are necessary for the person 25 in question to become-
(i) a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue
of any provision of those Acts; or
(ii) a British subject by virtue of registration under any pro-
vision of those Acts,
30 that person, instead of becoming a citizen or subject of that descrip- tion, shall become under this Act such a citizen or subject as he would have become at commencement if, immediately before commence- ment, he had been such a citizen or subject as is mentioned in para- graph (i) or (ii), as the case may be.
35 2. Where a person to whom a certificate of naturalisation has been granted before commencement has at commencement not yet taken the oath of allegiance, paragraph 1(2) shall apply as if the application on which the certificate was granted were an application to which paragraph 1 applies.
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Registration at U.K. consulate, after commencement, of certain births occurring in foreign countries less than a year before commencement
3.-(1) This paragraph applies to a person born less than a year before commencement if
(a) the birth occurred in a place in a foreign country (within the
meaning of the 1948 Act); and
SCH. 7
Section 48(7).