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(Consequential Provisions)
12 & 13 GEO. 6
A.D. 1949 Assembly], and the said Part II shall be deemed for the purposes of that Act to have taken effect in India on the said twenty-sixth day of January [on the date declared as aforesaid].
Provisions as
(4) Subsection (6) of section twelve of the said Act (which enables certain persons who would have become citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies on the date of the commencement of that Act but for their citizenship or potential citizenship of a country mentioned in subsection (3) of section one of that Act, and who make application before the first day of January nineteen hundred and fifty for the purpose, to be registered as citizens of 10 the United Kingdom and Colonies) shall, in relation to persons who were on the date of the commencement of that Act potentially citizens of India, have effect as if---
(a) for the reference to the first day of January, nineteen
hundred and fifty there were substituted a reference to 15 the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty- two; (b) at the end of paragraph (a) (which requires the Secretary of State to be satisfied that an applicant is descended in the male line from a person having the qualifications therein mentioned) there had been inserted the words "or is descended in the male line from a person born in the part of Ireland known at the passing of this Act as Eire"; and
(c) paragraph (b) (which requires the Secretary of State to 25
be satisfied that an applicant intends to make his ordinary place of residence within the United Kingdom and Colonies) were omitted.
(5) References respectively to a citizen of India and to citizens of India shall be inserted, after the references to a British subject 30 and to British subjects, in the following enactments in the said Act, that is to say,-
(a) in subsection (1) of section three (which limits criminal liability in the case of a British subject who is not a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies);
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(b) in the definitions in subsection (1) of section thirty-two of the expression “alien ” (which excludes a person who is a British subject), and of the expression "naturalised person?" (which includes a person who became a British subject by virtue of a certificate of naturalisation); and 40 (c) in so much of Part I of the Fourth Schedule as relates to the Act of Settlement (which specifies a provision in that Act as repealed so far as it relates to British subjects).
2. (1) All existing law to which this section extends, other 45 to existing law than the provisions of the British Nationality Act, 1948, shall, generally.
unless and until provision to the contrary is made by the authority having power to alter that law and subject to the provisions of
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