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the children of British subjects who were
themselves born abroad. It follows that if an
Anglo-Chinese who has received a certificate: of
denationalisation or is a person or dual nation-
ality should apply at a Consulate to register
the birth of his child there would be no legal
justification for refusing to register the
birth, at any rate if the application were made
in connexion with the 1922 Act. There is in
this a clear distinction between the registra-
tion of births and the registration of individuals
as British subjecte, since the latter has no
statutory effect. In practice, however, the
difficulty should be diminished by two
considerations:
(1) thai as, ander the new scheme the
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parent would in most cases not have been
registered as a British subject, he would
probably have difficulty in proving his
British natimality, which is an essential
preliminary to the registration of the birth
of the child, and
(2) that as the registration, although it
would